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[–] 98 points 1 week ago* (13 children)

I was also flabbergasted when I observed this. No idea why this is not default, but you can configure "Fail downloads" = "Executables", "Potentially dangerous" in the Sonarr Indexer options to prevent these downloads. Enable advanced settings first.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    I think this isnt a thing with prowlarr, is it?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    It is, I've seen it. People upload .exe files pretending to be an episode day before it's release. Prowlarr will find those and start downloading.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Also frustrating that sonarr won't allow you to NOT auto search for an episode before it's released. It auto downloads WAY more garbage than early releases in my experience. In fact I'm not sure I've seen it actually download something successfully before it's official release.

    But searches online show sonarr devs pushing back against it for some unknown reason.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Are people running the arr stack in windows?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I actually saw this last night while I was looking for another setting. Why would I ever want sonarr to download an executable, and why would they think I'd want it that way by default? It made me wonder if I was missing something.

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