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Stupid question but is it possible to get a virus from an MKV file that is less than 24 hours old. I was streamed using VLC version 3.0.20 form the repose on Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

But it's definitely possible to ship a virus embedded in a playable mkv file, but something else would have to extract it first, for it to do anything