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Interesting, though I suspect that is a false positive, it's happened before with that software

https://rejetto.com/forum/index.php?topic=9037.0

Most likely because it is a self-contained web server executable? That sort of software would seem suspicious and similar to other sorts of virus/malware.

Granted I have not used it in a while but I'd be surprised if it were true, their forums and github would be full of reports of malware.

https://github.com/rejetto/hfs

That aside you have plenty of other options to use if you prefer to use something else.

Syncthing, Resilio Sync, or one of those browser based p2p file sends e.g. https://file.pizza or similar.

If both p2p ends know how to use torrents then creating a simple torrent to share to the other peer would work fine. But that requires slightly more IT competence especially if someone needs to open a port forward (ideally you would make sure you have your own port forwarded so the other party doesn't have to worry about this).

If you're doing this more than once it might be worth setting up a simple server e.g. HFS is a nice open source/free HTTP file server, been a while since I used it but it still seems to be active https://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

Thanks!

Do you have the direct links to the same post at those instances? You might just be viewing the vote count from your instance at reddthat.com (which is fine but that's just the votes from your instance).

The votes at the community's home instance should be the correct ones e.g. whatever link that is at lemmy.world but I don't have that one either.

Pretty sure that vote count isn't correct. If I recall correctly the home instance of a community would have the total vote counts. When viewing a post from other instances you often just see the votes from users on that instance. I don't know when/if/how that propogates to keep vote counts the same across different instances (assuming it does, I don't think Lemmy devs place much value on tracking votes TBH).

What is the link to the post on lemmy.world itself, anyone have that?

e.g.

-14 votes https://lemmy.world/post/12235423

+1 vote https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/12576832

-12 votes https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14852887

EDIT: Added lemmy.world, that should be the correct total vote count (thanks /u/[email protected] !)

Keep an eye out for open trackers

https://opentrackers.org/

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Or keep an eye on the invite giveaway thread in [email protected]

Or interview for the big music trackers and work your way up the ranks to participate in their internal tracker recruitment threads e.g. https://interviewfor.red and https://interview.orpheus.network

PS - Trackers like TL tend to do open signups a few times a year so it's not really that difficult to get going once you catch an open signup.

I'd be fine with either. From what I can tell most Lemmy apps are already FOSS so this is really just about the small % of them that are closed source.

The only closed source app I can think of offhand is Sync for Lemmy and they already have their own official Lemmy community.

It depends on the instance, you just have to try different instances until you find one that works for you. For what it's worth I've found that dbzer0 works okay with Tor Browser.

Sucks but not surprising. Broadcom has a history of doing things like this, ugh. Even with their paid products they jack up the price so much that the only customers that stick around are the business enterprise types that are locked in & can't easily migrate for various reasons.

since I don’t believe the qbt executable is signed.

Yup you are correct, another reason that anti-virus/malware type software will mess with the download or execution of the installer.

Based on the current info that's kind of my initial hunch. The installer could crash if the user's anti-virus/malware messed with it. We also don't know if there is other software installed on the system doing things like that..

Otherwise, ruling out other things could be just that Windows itself is possibly borked. The sfc / dism method may fix that. Installers definitely crash when something is wrong with the Windows OS.

What version of Windows? Is this a normal install of Windows or did you do anything different/custom?

Assuming Windows 10/11 try disabling Real-time protection (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage Settings / Real-time protection) at least temporarily during the install.

Also disable any other anti-virus/malware type software you have.

With all of that disabled re-download qBittorrent from the normal download sources https://www.qbittorrent.org/download

When you attempt to run the setup make sure to run it as administrator so it is elevated (do a shift right-click on the setup.exe file & select Run as administrator).

If the install finally works, before you re-enable Real-time protection you should add the installed qbittorrent.exe in the Windows Defender Exclusions and Controlled folder access (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage Settings / add or remove exclusions) and (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage ransomware protection / Allow an app through Controlled folder access). The installed qbittorrent is probably in C:\Program Files\qBittorrent\qbittorrent.exe or wherever your programs are normally installed.

If none of that worked then I'd go with the other commenters, run RAM and hard drive diagnostics & make sure that's all working correctly.

Or maybe your Windows OS install is broken somehow, I'd run sfc and dism in those cases (a bit outside of scope of this community but you can search around for that).

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Or this works too