The AchieVer Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 RARBG Adds .EXE Files to Torrents, But No Need to Panic During the past few days, RARBG began adding what first appear to be .exe files to their torrents. Considering that these executables are often linked to malware, some people are beginning to panic. Regular users, however, have nothing to fear. These do not contain a virus. After more than ten years in the game, RARBG is one of the most popular and resilient torrent sites on the Internet today. The site took fourth spot in our 2019 list of most popular torrent sites, a position that has been earned through regular high-quality releases of everything from movies and TV shows through to music, games and adult content. During the past few days, however, the site took a somewhat unusual step that has had some users scratching their heads. A quick look inside some new video torrents released by the site reveals not only the content itself, but also an initially mysterious file called ‘ RARBG_DO_NOT_MIRROR.exe’. The presence of an .exe file often raises alarm bells As a general rule, when video torrents contain an .exe file there is a need for caution. These executables can contain anything and in some cases may be malicious, such as a virus or malware. As a result, experienced torrent users never click them but the same can’t be said about novices. In this instance, however, there is nothing for regular users to be worried about. Renaming the file to give it a .txt extension reveals that this is just a text file that displays the following information: “This is not an .exe file. This is just a placeholder to prevent mirroring over other public sites.” So if it’s just a text file, why would RARBG include it in their torrents? The explanation, it turns out, is pretty straightforward and not directed at users at all. While the site makes thousands of releases every week, these are easily mirrored on other platforms. Since .exe files are viewed with suspicion by tools used to automate the crawling of the site (most sites don’t allow .exe files to be uploaded in video categories), their inclusion means less diffusion of RARBG torrents to other platforms. “[The .exe file] is included in torrent files to stop distribution to other public sites,” RARBG confirms in a new addition to its FAQ. Interestingly, the “.exe” experiment is also having a positive effect on the health of torrents tracked by RARBG. According to the site’s operator, the inclusion of the .exe file in torrents “reduces the average hit&run [people who grab a torrent and then fail to seed] by 35% !” As mentioned earlier, there is nothing malicious with the .exe file as far as users are concerned and, as the site points out, people can easily ‘untick’ the file in their torrent client and it won’t even be downloaded. That being said, their presence won’t be welcomed by people looking to mirror RARBG torrents elsewhere. Since the traffic to such platforms could be negatively affected following the rejection of torrents containing an .exe, the job of their operators becomes much more difficult. Finally, it’s worth reiterating that real .exe files in any torrent – or indeed anywhere on the Internet – should always be approached with caution. Running these kinds of files without due diligence can be a risky proposition so the default actions should always be to run up-to-date anti-virus/anti-malware software and/or ignore and delete unexpected content, just to be on the safe side. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 I use a paid leecher and just uncheck the exe file and txt files i don't want there garbage .Rarbg is a strange site they steal everything from other private and public sites and re tag it to FGT or STUTTERSHIT , before they use to retag it all to Rarbg but there is no groups just tags the whole system is automated and they use bots in the cloud like i do ,What they don't re-tag they mirror it from other private sites like IPT and this don't stop the websites that use filehost from mirroring there stuff its all done in the cloud they download it to a server and remote it out on to filehost without the trash. This is not the 1st time they used exe files in there uploads they done it before and stopped for awhile .So they just up to there old routine , freaking garbage tracker who steals but don't want no one mirroring there stolen stuff. Edit: Also i use Linux when downloading torrents I have no wine installed .exe files will not run on linux without Wine or a VM with Windows. When I download warez i boot into windows and i only download programs from people and sites i trust on filehost or ftp . i never use torrents to download software since like 2008 when i downloaded a infected keygen from p2p i learned my lesson about apps from p2p long ago. 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 6 hours ago, steven36 said: they steal everything from other private and public sites It's a way to get files for those who don't have access to these private sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 1 hour ago, mp68terr said: It's a way to get files for those who don't have access to these private sites Its always been away to get files without having access to private sites , Sites like them that steal caused other public sites to close because they rob them just like playnow shutdown witch had exclusive Apple releases and they complained about RARBG a lot before they quit posting, everything Playnow released was better than what RARBG does as far as re-encodes . Also all the filehost blogs mirror there crap instead going to private sites and getting it anymore and causing there sites to not be as good as they once were . ..If RARBG was to get shutdown some other torrent site was just take its place . no body even much went to there site or even posted there releases tell PHD shut down and came back and went private . When PHD closed down the HD nuts migrated over there . but if you go to the HD forums they don't even be posting RARBG. Before RARBG became a thing stuff was still around, it just had the actual real tag instead of a fake one , RARBG don't even give any credits . They retag the real scene's and private p2p pure bluray and remux and retag it again and re-encode from non pure sources even though they get them all the time every bit of it is done by remote re-encodeing , remuxieng ,retagging is all done by AI. I can go download Non RARBG releases Pure BLURAY all daylong any never touch a torrent or magnet just by using filehost so you cant tell me if they went under they would not be replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Got your point. Re-encoding, remuxing, retagging instead of giving credit to the source is not the best way. And causing other sites to close down is obviously not the goal. On the other hand, access to private sites is sometimes not possible and the ratio system made/makes it hard to keep for those not having top speed connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 1 hour ago, mp68terr said: On the other hand, access to private sites is sometimes not possible and the ratio system made/makes it hard to keep for those not having top speed connections. I never understood why someone with slow speeds would bother to download pure blu-ray no way unless there re-encoding it down or burning it to BLU-Ray Disk . I hang around on x265 sites and download 1080p and 720p x265 and I only download x264 if I can't find it in my preferred quality , I find it on both torrent sites and blogs . If you do x264 a 1080p scene release witch is 8-10 gb you can find anywhere looks good enough anyway why do you want to waste all that time to download 30 gbs if you have slow speeds?. I can't stand there site they dont have x265 re-encode releases that i find on just about every other torrent site,witch is better for me personally. The problem with there site they want let other encode groups upload on there site and there pubic p2p if you don't want no one to mirror your stuff and act like a private site you go private and still people will mirror it like RARBG does . RARBG i don't have to visit there site i can just use a DHT search engine or kodi and pull there releases in there public and there a cancer to the torrent scene. There semi private anyway no one can join there site its all AI Bots its like a Filehost blog with torrents.. The trick they use when they get a dmca they take down the files witch you can still download it on all the blogs that mirror there stuff , then they wait so many days and reupload another old not pure release 1080p scene or retagged of and old release and there AI bots will re-encode it to 720p ,1080p x264 and XviD SD over and over they release the same crap a 100 times .. some filehost blogs that mirror there stuff will have multiple releases by them of the same quality . Nothing on there site stays very long it goes down as faster than using filehost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 3 hours ago, steven36 said: I never understood why someone with slow speeds would bother to download pure blu-ray... It was yeeaaars ago, at that time no BlueRay stuff. Maybe 720p were around, maybe, anyway not more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halvgris Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 as for me rarbg is far more usefull than the defunct tpb that always says get back in 15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 7 hours ago, mp68terr said: It was yeeaaars ago, at that time no BlueRay stuff. Maybe 720p were around, maybe, anyway not more than that. The Private tracker MTeam most of time gets pure BLU-Ray before most of the other sites and the real scene do . Sometimes HDChina ,CHDbits , HDArea or ,TTG will get it 1st if none of these sites get it 1st then the scene always release it as well , just as much of it comes from private sites as does from the scene now. Years ago like 2001 people downloaded video cds . That's why the scene released everything in XViD 1 Video CD and 2 Video CD size rips .. That was when I didn't bother with downloading videos. because i still had dial-up it took all night to download just 1 music album . The pirating i done back then was better than anything that was on the internet at the time.. I went to a DVD rental shop and brought Movies home and programs to remove DRM were free back then, all I had to buy back then was a DVDBurner, 1 Click DVD software and blank DVDs .So I burned my movies Full DVD to Full blank DVD over 4 GB when people on the internet were downloading 700 mb CD size Quality. The first Blu-ray Disc titles were released on June 20, 2006 . So of course years ago it were not around it didn't even exist yet . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 3 hours ago, halvgris said: as for me rarbg is far more usefull than the defunct tpb that always says get back in 15 minutes. You can access TPB with TOR Browser even when the https site is down. The thing TPB has going for it , they have releases the other sites don't have and they don't follow DMCA long after RARBG removes the files because of a DMCA and you have to wait so long tell they upload it again, it will still be up at TPB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinalgr1998 Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 nice info ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tivstip Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 You cant call it stealing when you steal from someone that steals. And to mention ipt that was made only for donations is the worst comparation. 😏 They steal, they steal, but at least they have speed bandwitch and seeeders, screenshots, tags, links, format alternatives for movies. Its at a private tracker standard. Spoiler make a comparation here for your own curiosity torrentz2.eu/fca0800a75a938a405af6b1a874d36b372c79849 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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