I tried posting this on Reddit but the mods have to approve it and haven’t yet. I’ll warn you guys.
I just downloaded the HumbleBundle Programming MEGA Bundle 2024 by Packt via torrent and stored it in my NAS. That system ran a virus check and found the file pragmaticmicroserviceswithcandazure.zip had a virus Win.Packed.Pwsx-10034067-0 in it. Is this common on HumbleBundle? I would expect something like this on a cybersecurity bundle for studying viruses but not on one about microservices. This zip file is for the book Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure.
Are you certain you were using an official download source?
I downloaded the torrents directly from their website after I paid for the books.
You most definitely did not…
You may have downloaded the tracker from the website, which is something entirely different and open to things being injected.
You’re being pedantic. The file extension is .torrent. Lay people call those torrents.
You, yourself just used “tracker” wrong. The tracker is the server hosting the torrent peer list, etc. Not the .torrent file.
And then your followup comment is just you calling the original commenter ignorant. You’re not helping at all.
Torrent files contain hashes that verify the contents of the associated files. They are not easy to fake by injecting malware. That would require finding a hash collision so your malware files (plus some padding) hash to the same value found in the legitimate torrent file. That not some easy task to do.
Downloading a torrent file from a legitimate site—and its associated data—is as secure as downloading any file from that same site.
Yes.
Which is what OP actually downloaded from Humble…
This ain’t difficult, but I’m not explaining it anymore when you’re running around calling me an ass.
It’s true, though. This was you being an ass:
What an asshole thing to say. And “running around”… Funny. It was one comment.
You said they downloaded the “tracker”. Wrong!
I’m starting to gather that you have zero idea how torrents work or even what they are…
Not OP, but how do you inject anything into a torrent, assuming the torrent is official? I’m not aware of that possibility.
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I re-downloaded the zip file in question but this time directly. Scanned it again and it came back OK. So you’re telling me that HumbleBundle will let these torrents potentially have viruses? I thought the files came from some resources HumbleBundle controlled.
No, I’m reading what you write and gathering that you have zero idea how torrents work or even what they are…