safe torrents

[matter11]

I haven't torrented anything my new computer due to fear of the typical shit. Can anybody share their typical process of finding safe torrents for different types of media?

i.e. which site(s) you use and how to determine/scan a file to see if it's shitty. also any sites that'd you'd recommend I avoid?

p.s. I use mcafee and symantec endpoint protection

[CaffeinePowered]

Step 1 - Get into a private tracker


There is no step 2

[Geoff]

what caff says


good sites:

tpb

demonoid (private but hardly)

isohunt


look at seed count, upvote/downvote, the author (to see if he is trusted), read comments

use peerblock (the new peerguardian2)






above all use common sense

[matter11]

Step 1 - Get into a private tracker


There is no step 2

from what I understand it sounds like google chrome exclusivity which I got through brbu. (hint hint hint) ((please?))

[KarthXLR]

I'm surprised no one has said anything about McAfee yet.

[HeK]

Oh, and don't install McAfee, it's shit, worse than Norton.

[Eschatos]

As long as you only download popular torrents, you'll be fine.  I've torrented all kinds of shit for years and gotten no viruses. 

[KorJax]

Yeah torrents are only the devil if you download obscure ones.

Always download torrents from trusted uploaders (who are usually highly rated) or the torrents that have a good chunk of seeds, as people don't bother seeding obvious malware. Also, read the comments in the torrent, if you get a bunch of people saying "VIRUS" then don't download, if you just get the occasional schmuck who says "VIRUS" on a legit CD crack while everyone else is fine, then you're good.

[matter11]

is symantec good? what protection do you guys use? (inb4 contraception jokes)

[matter11]

is symantec good? what protection do you guys use? (inb4 contraception jokes)

also, none of brbu's powerful members can pull strings to get me into a private tracker?

[Geoff]

you gotta earn that son


and i use avast because its free


if youre smart you dont even need mega antivirus

[KorJax]

Only thing I use is Spybot's Tea Timer, which blocks all changes to the registry unless I approve them (via a pop up window saying if I want to allow X change). 99% of viruses operate by taking over your registry (which is what makes the bad ones hard to kill along with hackery of your MBR), so this pretty much stops anything I might get dead in it's tracks.

Not that I get anything, which I don't. It's more or less a "last resort" thing. Because the best AV is the user. Just don't download obvious viruses and you'll be fine.

[zaneyard]

what are you looking at torrenting?

what.cd for music
Pass the Popcorn for movies
goem for movies and TV
i had a bitgamer account but i never used it and it went disabled.

[Eschatos]

The only antivirus software you should ever need is Malwarebytes and Spybot. 

[HeK]

is symantec good? what protection do you guys use? (inb4 contraception jokes)

OSX

[CaffeinePowered]

[quote author=matter11 link=topic=5849.msg218524#msg218524 date=1313025018]
is symantec good? what protection do you guys use? (inb4 contraception jokes)

OSX
[/quote]

Calling OSX Anti-Virus is like saying being ugly prevents STDs, there are viruses written for OSX


That being said, I just run occasional scans with Spybot S&D, and that's it. As for private trackers, they are best, I'm not in any because anything I ever need I can get from a friend who is on a top site when I go to bi-weekly tabletop sessions, the man has a 16 TB fileserver in his basement, when it comes to games, if you want it, he has it.

[Kirby]

what.cd for music

what.cd for music

what.cd for music

Thrice for emphasis.

1337x is good too, if you're good at searches.