Torrent sites help needed
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A Former User last edited by sgunhouse
ok I am a little worried now because I have been using piratebay for quite sometime but now I get viruses and malware attacks because of which I had to install windows 2 times. This is now getting frustrating!!! I did a research on my own on different torrent websites and a review showed me different categories but the problem is that it also includes piratebay which begs to question, is the list reliable enough? Which sites I can use from that list ?
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A Former User last edited by
@clayvligon
I'm afraid that using sites like that inevitably carries a risk of getting unwanted malware on your machine.
It's a risk you have to be prepared to take if you use them I'm afraid, all you can do is make sure that you have good protection software installed, which will hopefully intercept the unwanted "presents"!
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blackbird71 last edited by@clayvligon A number of users I've known who routinely browse "in harm's way" via Torrent make it a practice to install a quality drive-imaging program and make a solid, reliable, full image of their entire drive on external media (along with a bootable rescue disk). That way, when (not if) they encounter malware problems, they simply 'scrape and rebuild' by reinstalling the entire drive from the known-clean image. With malware, especially that coming down Torrent, one can never be sure when some truly nasty stuff will be involved (including advanced rootkits and mbr infectors), many of which can be really difficult to track down and root out from a system.
An alternative would be to access Torrent from within a virtual drive on the system and wipe it clean if it gets infected. A drawback with that is that a certain few malware variants have been known to bypass a virtual drive and infect the host system.
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A Former User last edited by
I bought a cheap laptop specifically for downloading from P2P sites. It's been infected a hundred times, but I never have to panic.
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A Former User last edited by
being properly proactive you rarely need to worry. i'm always in the torrent sites and twice over 20 plus years i've gotten something i had to fix. even if your security software is set to autoscan items after they're downloaded it's a good practice to rescan them before opening them. as for thepiratebay that is a last resort as far as i'm concerned, and only for tv and movies. blackbird71 makes a good point, and i agree that or something like rollback rx.
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A Former User last edited by
torrents sites are not that safe days ,(not for user but for their self) most of the agancies are catching and blocking the torrent sites and the sites which are left now are not updates or don't have new movies, you better try the niche sites for movies
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@speed24 said in Torrent sites help needed:
torrents sites are not that safe these days ,(not for user but for their self) most of the ISP's are catching and blocking the torrent sites and the sites which are left now are not updates or don't have new movies, you better try the niche sites for movies
ok folks torrent sites are fine. the problem comes in when the vpn shuts down. i downloaded a file twice using browsec and both times recedived infringement notices. i installed and ran nordvpn free trial and did the same download a 3rd time and no infringement notice. as for sites being blocked between proxy's and vpn's you can still get to any site you like. it's just that if a site is blocked you need to know which proxy to use for them, this is where your online friends can help. as for sites note having new movies / content not even remotely true PLENTY of good sites that DO keep their site software up to date.
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A Former User last edited by
Well, I was Extratorrent user I was shocked when head new about it. but I was also user of different user there are many best torrent alternative available you can check.
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A Former User last edited by
@speed24 said in Torrent sites help needed:
torrents sites are not that safe days ,(not for user but for their self) most of the agancies are catching and blocking the torrent sites and the sites which are left now are not updates or don't have new movies, you better try the niche sites for movies
come back when you know what you're talking about. plenty of EXCELLENT, UPDATED, and SAFE torrent sites out there. your ENTIRE statement IS incorrect
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@erikaray said in Torrent sites help needed:
Well, I was Extratorrent user I was shocked when head new about it. but I was also user of different user there are many best torrent alternative available you can check.
here is the extratorrent replacement in case you aren't aware of it.
