Tell your downloader (in my case qbittorrent) to not download .exe, .scr, .zip, etc, etc, etc. It’s been this way for years. You do have to clean out qbittorrent every few days so that sonarr will search again, so that’s a pain. But hey, I’m pirating media. Someone trying to scam me at the same time is expected.
> There will be changes in v5 to prevent downloading before release, which will help in most cases, but ultimately poor quality indexers result in these sorts of issues.
> We do not have plans to add file level blocking within downloads, like is being done with blocking at the the client level. There are just too complications for Sonarr to do it in every supported client. Blocking at the client level introduces a different issue and prevents Sonarr from processing the download at all, which is why you see recommendations to use Cleaneruparr or similar tools. Sonarr can address malicious files, but only does so after downloading when processing the download and that does not extend to .iso files, at least at this time.
If you are too lazy to join private trackers, at least use TraSH guides to set up quality profiles
https://trash-guides.info/
The same happens for other series as well! I was frustrated with it! Good thing you decompiled this monstrosity
> It even grabs your Sticky Notes for WHAT????
The whole sticky notes next to monitor is not a joke. I bet you could grab some crypto recovery keys this way
Haven't seen this on usenet so far. Wonder if its more torrent prone.
Got this in my sabnzbd instance and had to do .exe rules there too. An exe in a linux container…very smart.
I’m as upset as OP, get a job skid.
This has been a thing since torrents have existed.
Tell your downloader (in my case qbittorrent) to not download .exe, .scr, .zip, etc, etc, etc. It’s been this way for years. You do have to clean out qbittorrent every few days so that sonarr will search again, so that’s a pain. But hey, I’m pirating media. Someone trying to scam me at the same time is expected.
Yeah, this whole post felt like some weird deja vu from 25 years ago on a web forum. "Bastards are putting malware exe's on file sharing, wtf??"
https://forums.sonarr.tv/t/how-to-stop-sonarr-from-grabbing-...
> There will be changes in v5 to prevent downloading before release, which will help in most cases, but ultimately poor quality indexers result in these sorts of issues.
> We do not have plans to add file level blocking within downloads, like is being done with blocking at the the client level. There are just too complications for Sonarr to do it in every supported client. Blocking at the client level introduces a different issue and prevents Sonarr from processing the download at all, which is why you see recommendations to use Cleaneruparr or similar tools. Sonarr can address malicious files, but only does so after downloading when processing the download and that does not extend to .iso files, at least at this time.
Related:
AI-Built Torrent Site [TorrentClaw] Looks Inside Downloads to Catch Fakes and Malware - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052217 - October 2026