when downloading movies, series and anime they mostly come in those formats. Can they contain virus? if yes, do they get detected with antivirus?

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    11 months ago

    You need to realize that if someone finds a way to inject somthing into an mp4 that gets executed if you play the video, that’d be a huge thing. This would not be a piracy thing. mp4s are transfered over messenger apps, shared on Social Media, etc. This would potentially affect everyone, a researcher would probably find out about it and the devs would fix it…

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      11 months ago

      And your device may never get the updates fixing the issue.

      There were many cases just in the past decade that involved mobile phones software (the devices most notoriously running outdated software) or their hardware accelerated decoding feature, but if you use VLC than you must also be familiar with it’s security updates.