bluetrainjohnny Posted March 31, 2013 Report Share Posted March 31, 2013 Hi all,I've been using torrents/uTorrent for quite some time now. I've never really had a problem with sifting out torrents with harmful files in them, as I usually look at the comments or am able to tell by the contents of the file. Now that Magnet links are in play, I usually am only left to looking through comments, which sometimes aren't always there. I was wondering if there is a program or something along those lines that I can run a particular torrent through, and get results as to whether or not it contains harm. I'm not sure if I have heard correctly, but I may have read something about a forum or a collection of posts that people will post torrents that they have found to be harmful. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. I would have searched for a topic like this in a search bar, but I don't seem to be able to find one for the forum posts.Thanks everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted March 31, 2013 Report Share Posted March 31, 2013 I'm not sure if I have heard correctly, You haven't.The .torrent cannot contain a 'virus', but the downloaded data could ... Which of course you cannot scan UNTIL you have actually downloaded it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonfeaughe Posted April 1, 2013 Report Share Posted April 1, 2013 Make sure that you have anti-virus installed in your computer so that when you download the files from uTorrent, it can detect if it contains virus or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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