Originally Posted by Tiberious
Those aren't the only ones... I encountered one myself.
This time, it's Super Street Fighter 2X - Grand Master Challenge (as named on the tracker). The torrent downloads SSF2x.tar, which extracts to a 3-part self-extracting RAR, which then extracts a no-extension file (but is a RAR), which finally contains the image in Alcohol format (mdf/mds). Two problems with this:
1) More than 1 level of compression is completely unnecessary as far as space is concerned (however, double-compression would be fine for making sure a torrent doesn't create a directory). Any compression past first level saves no space.
2) The self-extraction section of the 3-part RAR is infected with:
TV Media
comedy-planet (places itself in startup)
HyperLinker
Megasearch (browser hijacker/'toolbar')
And one or two other adware programs whose names escape me at the moment.
Currently there are 4 people seeding this file, and 4 people downloading.
If you are one of the downloaders and see this message, continue at your own risk.
I will be deleting the file in question and not seed it any longer.