I dont know what is causing but i tried tons of fixes, i mainly use public torrenting, and sonarr and radarr are doing it.

I added *.arj and arj to the quality profile avoid list without success, and prowlarr is as torrent (i’ve read sometimes it gets confused and uses nzbget)

  • Provolone@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    In Qbittorrent you can tell it to not download certain files. So you can tell it to ignore anything with *arj, for example.

    I’ve had this happen with people pretending to be certain groups and making the file a .lnk (a link to a website, I assume). Sonarr will still send the file to Qbittorrent, but it won’t get downloaded at all.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeBanned from communityEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I got one so I picked it apart. The link runs a script on the local system that downloads a kubernetes runtime. From there I assume it runs a Bitcoin miner or something, I didn’t go any further.

  • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I get those very frequently the day before a popular show airs.

    I wish there was a setting in sonarr to only grab released episodes (like radarr has) bit it seems like blocking extensions is the way to go.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 days ago

      The sonarr devs keep refusing to do this because “use better trackers”.
      They don’t understand most people can’t join the top of the line trackers right away, and that using public trackers is a massive help to filling the gaps, even if they unfortunately get crappy files from time to time.

      • yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 days ago

        I went down the rabbit hole on this the other day as I was trying to find a way to block unreleased episodes. It’s unbelievable to me the resistance they put against such a simple feature. Like no one is requesting to force it that way, just give the option to make it so.

        The two reasons I saw for canceling the feature request over menu duplicates is the “use better trackers” mainly but also that shows are so often released or leak early they this setting would block you from getting them faster… Those are the dumbest reasons ever to not provide a setting that people are literally asking over and over again for.

        The change is done for radarr so it might not be terribly hard to adapt into sonarr. Being open source I would have expected someone to do the change already but if they fight against it so much as a principle who would expect them to approve the change…

  • yaroto98@lemmy.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    You can try adding cleanuperr to your *.arr stack. It will listen to your queues and if something gets stuck, like .arj files, it’ll remove them, blocklist them, and maybe re-search? I’m not sure.

    You can also change your settings in sonarr to not do any rss sync searches with your public indexers. This stops sonarr from seaching those indexers automatically for the next release. I’ve notices most of that garbage pops up before the official release, then gets drowned out by the real stuff after the release. If you leave the auto/interactive search enabled, you can just click the auto search button for the episode the day after it comes out. You likely won’t pick up any garbage this way.

    I wrote a script that spam reports these, and I run it when I’m feeling frustrated with a something, but nothing I’ve spam reported with the script has gotten taken down yet. So, that sucks too.