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I been getting a lot of trojans(?) disguised as post with an "avi" file. Most want you to click on an exe file so that it can load. Could sab use mediainfo to test the file to see whether it is valid. In case it can't read it, flag the file as failed so that CP can search for another.

I tried a postproc script, but seems it doesn't do anything beyond running

I realize this might be a short live solution, but should help in general, and believe it should be easy to implement

mediainfo & #postprocscript: As far as I understand, that would yield the same answer as in your thread here: http://forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php ... 485#p93485

So isn't this thread just another way of asking "can the result of post-processing be fed back to SAB / CP" If so, probably easier to ask in http://forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php ... 485#p93484 when that will happen: 0.7.x or 0.8.x or ...

Here I'm asking for a feature request in a future release. The other was trying to get my script to do something useful, thought I could lick the problem without doing a request.

I understand. I think "post-processing script's exit code should determine SABnzbd status so that CP knows the download failed" as feature request is more general and thus more feasible than incorporating other software for a more specific goal.

But let Shypike decide

Shypike mentioned that in a future release sab will use the exit code. It's been a bit frustrating since I had to delete several days of dls since all these were spam.

Guess I will have to wait till then

Hi ugukanain,

having the same problem and had a similar thought. At least I would like to immediately kill the video file (if it is not a video file) so that CP would not be able to handle it.

Have you made any progress at all? Trying not to reinvent the wheel here.

Regards,
JP

Since the "unwanted extensions" feature was implemented,
you can choose to "fail" jobs with .exe and .com extensions in RAR files.
See Config->Switches->Queue

Some trojans are disguised as video files, so the new feature (nice) won't work. I have been using Clinton's nzbToMedia scripts, since sab didn't handle abnormal exits.