Need a bit torrent expert !

In your experience of downloading software via bit torrent - how much of it is infected with viruses, rootkits, etc?
Have you ever trusted downloading an entire operating system ?
Or do you think the chances are it will carry backdoor devices?

 

I'm no expert but I've dowloaded Civilization IV(waste of banwith) Warcraft WOW (good game) Frozen throne without any problems. I do scan my comp frequently with spyware programs.

 

Don't ever download an entire operating system, it never works.

 

Yeah I've tried that 3 times now and it always bugs-out in the setup process - why is that?
Alsao its a naughty question to ask but - does anyone know a good source for operating systems that do work? ya know M$ etc

 

i'd be careful bout os's but i use fulldls.com &n i've onlyever come across viruses in files under 50 megs that claim to be cracks or keygens ..i've downloaded problya couple hundred gigs of stuff without comming across any viruses
but i do scan often & keep all virus updates current

 

Cheers thanks for the advice -
I got infected by a virus from a keygen last week - lickily I cleaned the whole system out quite good and it never came back. These torrents are ok if youre really carefull I guess

 

ive never had any problem with a torrent before, they work perfect in my experience

 

Actually a friend of mine just DL'd a student version of windows via torrent and like Stratovarius he was previously of the opinion most OS's dont work from torrent DL's. So he was really surprised when it did work. He ran all the antivirus - Anti root kits - packetsniffers, etc etc etc to test if it was altered in some way - he just cant find anything wrong and it works perfect in every sense.

still it pays to be careful

 

i have used bittorent for a few years now, once at bitetree, i got wipped out by a virius, but i recovered & i have gotten tons of shows there, so the o/o-age is in my favor.

 

i have been using bittorent for many years basicly when it came out. bittornado actualy. I have never got a virus from bittorent at all i use torrentspy.com if i want to download a torrent, but there is a more fast, and effective way to pirate. Use mIRC to download files such as movies, songs, and programs. In order to get hacked on bittorent the tracker must have some sort of remote script exicution exploit.

 

ive not had any problems downloading any torents apart from some audio and visual files are mising and you have to download them, after having a very nasty trojan thats wiped out my pc im getting rather wary now

 

i only download oses from closed torrent sites. where no bs can be put, would never trust a os from a public source.

 

Red hat - fedora. As you know, there is no need to steal it. It is free.

 

yeah, but then ubuntu is easier to install tough, or Kubuntu if u prefure the old "windows" look.

 

i never had a virus since... well... (see sig). i use bittorrent, and btw OS's should always come from the source.