One common attribute of the fake torrents is that they present themselves as future episodes of the program. The feature I would request is to “Ignore torrents for unaired episodes”.
That would allow Sonarr to apply the logic merely to the torrent name and it’s already known air date for the episode.
Unlikely enhancement, as it was discussed way back in 2015.
I would also like to see this feature. Or at least make it so the Release Profiles check the file extensions or something. I’ve added the most common extensions to there, and the downloads still get added to my client. They’re blacklisted on my client, so they don’t actually download, but when it rejects them it makes Sonarr think they’re complete, so Sonarr doesn’t ever remove them, the torrent app doesn’t ever remove them, and I need to go in and do it manually.
Release profiles just look at the name of the release, not the files…
Prompted by a recent increase in the frequency of fake downloads, I recently installed Cleanuperr. In combination with qBittorrent’s blacklist, which stops files with dodgy extensions from downloading, Cleanuperr detects failed imports from Sonarr and automatically deletes them and adds them to the block list. It doesn’t stop Sonarr picking up the fakes in the first place, but it means I don’t have to worry about cleaning them up afterwards.
Thanks for this, I’ll definitely check it out.
Yeah, this is a problem with fake torrents of episodes that are not released yet.
It would be great if sonar would ignore torrents for episodes that release date is in the future. Also a delay option, for example, to download episode if it has been aired at least 1 day ago. That might also help with fake torrents.
also flagging fake files would be nice - at least for myself, to avoid fake-flagging. this way I would download only once the fake episode but never again.
I’ll add my response from another thread, if only to keep this thread alive
Now that I’ve got Sonarr and qBit setup for easy “subscriptions” to full seasons of current shows as they come out, I’ve noticed an uptick in the last few months of malware masquerading as the next unaired episode in many current TV shows.
These will get dutifully queued for download, and though I’ve already blacklisted all the malicious extensions (20+ extensions including ISO, EXE and ZIPX among others) in qBit, it doesn’t seem to prevent those fake torrents from (a) getting queued, (b) getting stalled before “completion” by qBit and (c) thus preventing Sonarr from finding a pulling a legit torrent once the legit episode hasgone live.
I’ve come back weeks later after some current shows’ latest episodes have aired, only to see Sonarr stalled waiting for qBit to “finish” a download of an ISO torrent that will never be completed. And Sonarr being none the wiser, it’s dutifully doing nothing duplicative by trying to download another torrent for that same not-quite-missing-but-not-quite-acquired “limbo” episode.
Sonarr already displays an “Episode has not aired” icon based on metadata for the future episodes. I’m guessing this would be sufficient metadata for Sonarr to be able to prevent searching for torrents until the airdate, but (a) it doesn’t wait until airdate by default before searching for a torrent, and (b) I can’t find any control in any settings to enable such an option.
Is such an option - don’t auto-search for torrents until the airdate - maybe in the works for Sonarr?
It seems the malware “vendors” are increasingly relying on this Sonarr behaviour to circulate malicious torrents. Thank god qBit is smart enough to not download files with these manually-blacklisted extensions. I just wish I could get back to the glory days of a year ago when episodes would just automatically get downloaded same-day, and be ready for my viewing pleasure.
Hi! I’ve recently started using Sonarr (coming from an alternative solution) and I’m already being plagued by this issue. Having the option to instruct Sonarr not to search episodes before air date would alleviate the matter. It would also save some CPU cycles 
There is a github issue for this but I’m not sure what the current status is: Prevent Grabbing if Episode Hasn't aired · Issue #969 · Sonarr/Sonarr · GitHub
If anyone has an update it would be greatly appreciated.
For now I’ve enabled the “Failed Download” on the indexers to try and mitigate the malware I’m getting.
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