I have the show “Suits” added to my list and today Sonarr downloaded a fake torrent as it was named exactly like a real torrent “Suits.S05E03.HDTV.LOL”. I was checking the sonarr activity page and it showed that it had grabbed and downloaded the fake file which was actually a shortcut virus. Does Sonarr not check for media file presence in the torrent? This is the first time this has happened. My profile setup is SD and “must contain” values are “lol, rarbg, killers, fum, river, tla, asap” and indexer is “Kickass.”
We don’t actually know what is in the torrent until its downloaded. Specially when magnet links are involved. But sonarr won’t actually import the file into your library unless it’s a known video format.
Cool then, understood that but then shouldn’t the torrent be removed, stop seeding and folder deleted if it isn’t a video file? Because it was still seeding and the folder wasn’t deleted from disk. I know Sonarr deletes and removes torrent files after import and it works perfectly but for this torrent it did not remove and delete. Hope you got my point.
It could be a set of RAR files or a video file extension that Sonarr isn’t aware of yet, in this case we don’t want to guess that it’s wrong and take action, instead we’ll let the user deal with it.
Thanks. That makes sense. 
It also helps to set the minimum size to avoid the most obvious fakes. It doesn’t even have to be that high, e.g. minimum 50mb for all qualities weeds out the 1kb fakes with virus url’s etc.
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Thanks for reminding! I had it setup in my development machine but forgot it in my main machine. 
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