Staying Safe With Torrents - Virus/malware Questions

[RiPPeD-iT]

Hello everyone,

This is my first proper post, so please accept my apologies in advance if this is the wrong section to ask or the question sounds stupid.

On numerous occasions, antivirus checkers such as AVG have popped up saying the torrent package has a virus or is a hacktool. How can I be sure that what I'm getting is safe, hasn't been modified to include a trojan and is from it's original package owner?

Thanks again

 

[RiPPeD-iT]

Thanks very much Vimal. The problem doesn't usually happen when I've finished downloading a torrent, but usually only happens whilst it's installing/extracting.

 

[Uncle Mac]

Hello everyone,

This is my first proper post, so please accept my apologies in advance if this is the wrong section to ask or the question sounds stupid.

On numerous occasions, antivirus checkers such as AVG have popped up saying the torrent package has a virus or is a hacktool. How can I be sure that what I'm getting is safe, hasn't been modified to include a trojan and is from it's original package owner?

Thanks again

Good question mate!

1. You're downloading OS including Medicines? Yes it could be has Virus.
2. You're downloading Software/Program including Medicines/Medicines/Medicines? Yes it could be has virus.

What Virus Actually: A Virus infection under False Positive. False positive wouldn't harm your Data/system. all you need to Exclude that file into your A/V program to have rest of it. Remember most of Medicines/Medicines/Medicines/Medicines have virus such as ''Trojan gen'' due to control managment over software/activation. So no worries what you have downloaded from Official users. Read here about False Positive:

You must be registered for see links

To Believe file has False or Negative infection: A false positive is when antivirus software identifies a non-malicious file as malware. A false negative is when antivirus software fails to detect a malicious file.

Good luck and feel safe. Have a nice day/night.

 

[RiPPeD-iT]

Good question mate!

1. You're downloading OS including Medicines? Yes it could be has Virus.
2. You're downloading Software/Program including Medicines/Medicines/Medicines? Yes it could be has virus.

What Virus Actually: A Virus infection under False Positive. False positive wouldn't harm your Data/system. all you need to Exclude that file into your A/V program to have rest of it. Remember most of Medicines/Medicines/Medicines/Medicines have virus such as ''Trojan gen'' due to control managment over software/activation. So no worries what you have downloaded from Official users. Read here about False Positive:

You must be registered for see links

To Believe file has False or Negative infection: A false positive is when antivirus software identifies a non-malicious file as malware. A false negative is when antivirus software fails to detect a malicious file.

Good luck and feel safe. Have a nice day/night.

Thanks very much The Strength. Unfortunately, It's sad to say, but I actually got a very popular Team-OS torrent and that definitely had a virus. As soon as it was installed, the virus disabled many of the system options, including windows defender, group policy editor etc.