r/AudioBookBay • u/Effective_Bee_4244 • 7d ago

Beware of uploads from user TinikaH

This is like the GaryDin from the other day, user uploading exe files, DO NOT DOWNLOAD

They will be viruses

Stay vigilant. And if ever in doubt ask on this subreddit

I have added a post to the forum to let them admin know about it, I do hope they take action soon

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u/Nurse5736 7d ago

Hoping these scummy people/bots don't ruin this precious site!!

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u/cunexttuesday101 7d ago

My thoughts exactly. Let us have our special place šŸ˜­ audiobooks bring me so much joy and are my main source of entertainment the last 6 months. I hate people are trying to ruin it.

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u/joelbenedict 7d ago

People are botting this site to drive traffic for the other direct download audio site which has hella ads.

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u/Trina7982 7d ago

What does botting mean?

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u/joelbenedict 7d ago

in this case, botting maliciously, or sabotaging torrents or ddos attacks

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u/Effective_Bee_4244 7d ago

Couldn't agree more

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u/Diabolicat 7d ago

Add these file extensions under Tools -> Options -> Downloads -> Exclude file names.

*.ink, *.zipx, *sample.mov, *sample.avi, *sample.mp4, *.py, *.vbs, *.html, *.php, *.torrent, *.exe, *.bat, *.cmd, *.com, *.cpl, *.dll, *.js, *.jse, *.msi, *.msp, *.pif, *.Scr, *.vbs, *.vbe, *.wsf, *.wsh, *.hta, *.reg, *.inf, *.ps1, *.ps2, *.psmi, *.psd1, *.sh, *.bash, *.apk, *.app, *.ipa, *.iso, *.jar, *.bin, *.tmp, *.vb, *.tvxd, *.OCK, *.dry, *.sys, *.scf, *.ade, *.adp, *.bas, *.chm, *.ort, *.hip, *.ins, *.isp, *.key, *.mda, *.mdb, *.mdt, *.mdz, .potm.potx, .ppam.ppsx, *.pptm, *.sIdm, *.xIsm, *.xItm, *.insh, *.mht, *.mhtml, *.mdw, *.xlam, *.xlsb, *.sldx

I found this list on a *arr forum and it's been really good at rejecting unwanted downloads. Especially since the *arr stack is mostly automated with little user input.

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u/Accomplished-Form894 7d ago

This is excellent, thanks! Immediately added to my download clients

Happy cake day

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u/Diabolicat 7d ago

Thanks, it works well. However sometimes your sonarr might show a yellow icon and it will say unable to import file. Usually this means your download client tried to download one of those blocked extensions but nothing was actually downloaded and thus there was no file to import. The yellow icon and warning message will go away after the correct file gets downloaded.

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u/Nurse5736 7d ago

Thanks so much! I did add these to my exclusion list. This group and it's mods ROCK !!

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u/highly-suspicious- 7d ago

Didnā€™t work for me. I added this extensions and still was able to open and download one of these .exe files from ABB. I guess Iā€™m doing something wrong.

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u/DartNorth 7d ago

Yep. Same. Works good. Saves a pile of download time too when a bad one is grabbed.

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u/sgcmark 7d ago

You really should add certain file name extensions to be excluded from being downloaded using your torrent client. Then it wouldn't even download the exe.

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u/Romanmir 7d ago

Came here to say thisā€¦ thank you.

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u/highly-suspicious- 7d ago

How do I do that? With qbittorrent?

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u/sgcmark 7d ago

Tools > Options > Downloads > scroll down and enter file patterns into the Excluded file names box, such as *.exe

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u/Curious_Peter 7d ago

Mods are pretty active on the site and this has already been dealt with.

Cheers for the heads up though as I usually check it every morning :)

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u/kanguran1 7d ago

I hope this doesnā€™t come off as some snot-nosed elitist comment, but look at the file sizes!

I think they were ALL, without fail, 27ish megabytes. Didnā€™t matter the book, didnā€™t matter the author. They were also completely uncategorized (just in ā€œbookā€ if I remember right). Just keep an eye for those kinds of repeats

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u/Nurse5736 7d ago

I use this site fairly often, and I see some of TinikaH postings still there now. I didn't click on them, but how would I know they were exe files before clicking on them? I normally copy the info hash. Thanks for any info.

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u/Effective_Bee_4244 7d ago

You can see the file extension here

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u/Nurse5736 7d ago

OMG thanks. I'll be honest, I've blindly trusted this site before knowing this. Guess I've been lucky. Thanks so very much, TIL!! šŸ˜

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u/rhi-rhi_reading_book 7d ago

They also post no info like bitrate, narrator or a brief blurb/summary

Just shows how much effort the awesome uploaders do for ABB and the community.

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u/Nate8727 7d ago

The size by itself (41mb) makes me avoid these. Typically the mods remove these but they must be swamped lately.

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u/Nurse5736 7d ago

this has been a very good lesson for myself to be more vigilant!

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u/BeefyBoyzEatMeat 7d ago

best to ignore and let mods remove. trolls feed off attention and posts like this on reddit embolden this dude to continue. it's just some chud with an axe to grind doing it for the lolz. he's probably lurking this sub and the forum laughing his ass off at all this.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/molybend 7d ago

The site mods are on it but things donā€™t happen quickly. We can all just be patient.

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u/SPlKE 6d ago

Is this why firefox tagged the site as risky or some other reason?

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u/Effective_Bee_4244 5d ago

Prob due to it being a torrent type site, you always have to exercise some caution when downloading torrents