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Stupid question but is it possible to get a virus from an MKV file that is less than 24 hours old. I was streamed using VLC version 3.0.20 form the repose on Linux.

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[–] Julian_1_2_3_4_5@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

if you really only played it and it didn't abuse some zero day in vlc (extremely unlikely), the there's basically zero chance you could have activated a virus.

[–] Julian_1_2_3_4_5@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

But it's definitely possible to ship a virus embedded in a playable mkv file, but something else would have to extract it first, for it to do anything