Hello,
 Recently I've been seeing several TV show torrents coming down that have standard filenames, but they have .exe as the extension instead of the expected .mkv extension.  How do you block torrents like that?  Thanks for any and all help with this!

Look here: Settings > Transfers > Files
Look for the item that says "Auto-select files in new transfers", select and press the configure button. Now configure it how you want.

Also look here: https://support.tixati.com/file%20auto%20select

I tried that and I'm still getting *.exe files instead of *.mkv files.  Any other ideas?

Hello,
 You're probably thinking, what's the big deal, you just delete the *.exe files and go on.  That's true, but the Tixati download rule that caused the *.exe files to download in the first place now will NOT download the *.mkv files when they actually come down so I miss episodes. :-(

Try leaving the 'always select' and 'only select' empty, and ONLY put in *.exe in the 'never select'. That should then never select exe files, and download all other file extensions.

I don't get it. What's the point of downloading fake torrents with viruses, and complaining that they don't have any actual files? They never had them to begin with. It's a trap for illiterate people who double click on everything to make them run those executables.

Just don't visit the websites that offer you that crap.

I use RSS feeds.  I don't visit websites.

RSS feeds do not appear out of thin air. They are just files containing text and links which your client re-requests from some web server (usually some torrent catalogue) to see the updates. So the solution is the same: do not use catalogues filled with junk torrents. For example, if there is a release group, you can use their specific RSS from their site or one of the official places they upload to.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I have found VERY FEW FREE RSS feeds.  I try to stay off the radar by ONLY using FREE RSS feeds.

I have never seen non-free RSS in my life. If a tracker or a blog is public, so are its RSS feeds (if they are available). I guess Google only shows junk fake malware sites to the general public today, and you couldn't leave that bubble.

write detailed post about how to leave that bubble

I guess I should better explain what I mean by FREE.  I only use websites like this one that don't require registration, thus (in my opinion) staying off the radar of the MPAA, etc.

I don't think this forum allows direct links to good examples and their discussion.

However, if you go to Reddit's r/Piracy, there is a lot of guides and links to useful information. Even if you don't need some specific thing, at least skim through the topic to get the general idea of what is possible.

What I was saying is that Google Search has already turned into a conveyor belt that moves clueless users to the crappy useless websites all serving Google's own ads. You see 10% of the Web that way, both because of site blocking lobbied everywhere by everyone, and commercial incentives.