USENET and Viruses

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Originally Posted by Sometwo

Use masterbin and click on the video or disc image filter. That will eliminate almost all malware. I've found a couple DVD ISOs that had a program (probably malware) in them configured to autorun. Now I open the image with winrar to make sure it's just the video before I burn it.

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It's mysterbin.

Someone should come out with a usenet indexing site for porn called masturbin.

Viruses can of course be a concern, but no more than from any other sources,just get a scene release if you're worried and scan every download (which you should be doing anyways).

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Originally Posted by johhny

Viruses can of course be a concern, but no more than from any other sources,just get a scene release if you're worried and scan every download (which you should be doing anyways).

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Yes Johhny, I couldn't have said it better myself :) I am a little paranoid myself, so I treat scene releases like any other file. I would tend to agree that virus' are more prevelant with usenet, but only because there is a servere lack of comments and reviews on most usenet sites. I bet if folks blindly downloaded torrents the way people do with usenet, there would be just as many virus' and corrupt files. I have only experimented with usenet and have downloaded probably only about 100 or so video files ( torrents are my main squeeze ) but I would say 90-95 percent of my usenet files are clean whereas almost 100 percent ( no sh_t ) of my torrent files have been perfect. I don't mean to sound like a torrent fanboy, I see the advantages of both torrents and usenet. For very old and rare files usenet is sometimes the only way to go. :)

Agree with @Hole69 - if you are an old school Usenet user you likely searched for content using headers (which can still be done successfully with a trained eye) If you can't spot bogus payloads you need to go after content using NZBs, plenty of free options for public search sites many already mentioned. Search the forum for nzb sites and you can get a whole list.

Also look for the fake rar files.

If the files are labeled
something001.rar
something002.rar
something003.rar
They are usually fake.

Look for
something001.rar
something001.001
something001.002

etc.

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Originally Posted by CyberCitizen

Also look for the fake rar files.

If the files are labeled
something001.rar
something002.rar
something003.rar
They are usually fake.

Look for
something001.rar
something001.001
something001.002

etc.

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You forgot .rar, .r00, .r01, .r02, etc., which tend to be legit.

Thanks mjmacky,

You are correct, I did forget that one as well, was on an iPhone posting & was going by memory, as long as you use common sense your pretty lucky. Had the odd password file that hadn't been flagged by binsearch.

The other one that annoys me is rars in rars with passwords. As they are normally not detected by binsearch.

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Originally Posted by CyberCitizen

Thanks mjmacky,

You are correct, I did forget that one as well, was on an iPhone posting & was going by memory, as long as you use common sense your pretty lucky. Had the odd password file that hadn't been flagged by binsearch.

The other one that annoys me is rars in rars with passwords. As they are normally not detected by binsearch.

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nzbclub flags archive within archive with an exclamation mark. Of all the free indexers I'd say nzbclub has the overall edge as the best. Just edges out mysterbin.

Thanks Hole69, Didn't know about that one, added to my list of sites :P