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Stupid question but is it possible to get a virus from an MKV file.
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if you really only played it and it didn't abuse some zero day in vlc (extremely unlikely), the there's basically zero chance you could have activated a virus.
But it's definitely possible to ship a virus embedded in a playable mkv file, but something else would have to extract it first, for it to do anything