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  • yes, it's mostly things like games or software

    though, I have seen more & more reports of people finding malicious disguised LNK files in their downloads and torrents, which will run some arbitrary command if you open that: Windows does not ever show the LNK extension, so a file could be named "<whatever>.mkv.lnk", and you would only know if you checked the "file type" column in Explorer (which would read "Shortcut" instead of something like "Matryoshka file"), or when you see the cmd.exe window flicker open and close.

    bonus edit: LNK is the native file extension that Windows uses to link app shortcuts, such as the shortcuts on your desktop.








  • due to the way the Fediverse works (servers hosted on many different machines rather than one large machine), text search isn't (officially) possible. on Mastodon you have the option of searching by hashtags, but I don't think that works on Lemmy.

    you would have to use an external search engine like DuckDuckGo, Google or something like https://www.search-lemmy.com/