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Random gamess are being downloaded in transmission (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by RushTfe@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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As title said.

I have my system, with jellyfin, radarr, sonarr, prowlarr and transmission (amongst other services but possibly not related).

The thing is, since today's morning, random games are being downloaded in my torrent. I haven't done it, how is it possible that they get added without permission?

By now, I'm just deleting them as I'm at work and have no time to check much.

But it's big quantities, like, 10 or 15 games are being suddenly added. Deleted all of them in the morning, and they showed up again

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[–] waitingfortheencore@alien.top 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Someone’s downloading torrents using your instance of transmission. Turn off port forwarding and put your network behind a VPN.

[–] RushTfe@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't like using a vpn, as I have people using my services and don't want them to be installing their vpns at their pcs, tvs, etc.... Are there other options to avoid it? Otherwise I will do this, but would prefer to avoid it.

[–] IthronMorn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe you could stop forwarding the port for your torrent client and put it behind a cloudflare tunnel? Just the webui of the torrent client though.

[–] RushTfe@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

And another question. Possibly noob question. Why would anyone want to download stuff at my computer? Just to have more seeders?

[–] arvigeus@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

Most optimistic scenario: to let you know that your system is compromised.

[–] McMaster-Bate@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Use your computer as a seedbox if they haven't installed a virus on it already.

[–] fedroxx@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Hopefully they're being nice and just trying to show you that your security is garbage.

On the other hand, they could literally be loading malware.

[–] Itzz-Donkey@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Are you port forwarding