I’m seeing thepiratebay org is discouraged because it has lots of viruses due to lack of moderation. I was wondering how could an mp4 or an mkv etc. could be harmful? Are people talking about executable stuff?
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mkv is just a container containing whatever files. Not sure but some could contain code
Have a look at Dangerzone to strip code from tons of files. Videos not included afaik
mkv is not a file archive format.
It’s a media container format. Like mp4.
Both can include [file] resources, but that’s different from a file archive having and extracting to files.