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)
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.
I already made a top level reply, but I’m with the devs on this one. If you are using a tracker that allows release spam with malware, it would be counterproductive and honestly irresponsible to start playing whack a mole with it. Your software, development process and people aren’t prepared to do anti malware. Just tell your users that they’re using bad trackers and they need to switch.
Because that’s what’s happening. The arj files are malware. If someone asked me to install a water filtering system on their cars gas lines so they could use fuel from the cheap gas station I’d tell them the same thing: don’t use that gas station, they put water in the gas. Go across the street to the market rate one.
Furthermore, providing a way to filter those files just means that bad trackers that allow release spam malware will not be abandoned and the problem of that malware will get worse.
Literally get on better trackers for the sake of your own privacy, security and cpu cycles.
That’s a terrible way to put it and sincerely misguided in my opinion. I have a handful of public indexers, they work fine in 99.99% of the cases for my needs. In fact, never before I’ve had this issue until recently, with two unreleased episodes that were fake files. For me, not allowing the unreleased episodes is just another layer of security. In other words, using your example, I don’t want the water filter for my car to use the bad gas station, I want to get the water filter to make sure that if there’s ever some water by accident or not then it won’t get to the engine… If I see the indexers or trackers start publishing a lot of fake stuff it will get removed, but from public indexers I understand if there’s something ever getting past, and I don’t want the devs of some software deciding that me requiring that a show has been aired before I even try to download it is dumb.
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…
I mean, I’ve only gotten those from one tracker, and haven’t gotten them since I’ve removed that one tracker. Sonarr at least recognizes it’s not a media file and won’t copy it to your media folder. And you can use regex filters with qBittorrent. There hasn’t been a legitimate use of .arj in what, 30 years? So you won’t be missing anything by filtering it.
Use better trackers