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REDACTED · « **on:** April 12, 2015, 03:29:10 PM »

Hello im thinking of getting this but how does it work with torrents? my ip protected? or still risky? and how does it work with utorrent?

Kindly regards

Eddy · « **Reply #1 on:** April 12, 2015, 04:13:34 PM »

avast has no problems with torrent applications/downloads.
It will monitor and scan them.

But very often torrents are illegal and contain malware.

Keep in mind that the torrent protocol was designed to make downloads faster,
by downloading 1 file from several sources at the same time.
In theory it sounds nice, but it basically never worked as "advertised".
In fact is almost always slower than downloading from the publisher's server.
Bandwidth has increased a lot in a short time.

Staticguy · « **Reply #2 on:** April 12, 2015, 04:39:02 PM »

As far as I know downloading stuffs from torrents is risky these days. In some countries (maybe all of them) the ISP starts to monitor their customer torrents downloads. 1st download=friendly warning, 2nd=notice letter, 3rd and final warning=ISP will cut out their connection from you.

Download torrents at your own risk and make sure you scan them with Avast, MBAM, SAS Pro, or other antispyware program you may have. I download stuffs from warez bb which is okay

polonus · « **Reply #3 on:** April 12, 2015, 05:42:03 PM »

Read about the dangers of torrents: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/dangers-torrents-70661.html
link article author John Machay. When using the BitTorrent protocol using blocklists does nothing! If you are a part of the swarm of ip's yours can be logged, neither this nor any other IP block software can protect you from that.
See: https://zeltser.com/malicious-ip-blocklists/ (some free, some licence paid)
Know what is interesting and threatening: http://dns-bh.sagadc.org/removed-domains-20150404.txt

polonus

REDACTED · « **Reply #4 on:** April 12, 2015, 11:36:05 PM »

thanks for the info and tips=) kindly regards

polonus · « **Reply #5 on:** April 12, 2015, 11:59:11 PM »

You are welcome,

polonus

Michael (alan1998) · « **Reply #6 on:** April 13, 2015, 12:24:29 PM »

Summary short. Torrenting is bad, and Illegal. Will Avast! Stop it? No. Do we recommend it? NO!

Quote from: Staticguy on April 12, 2015, 04:39:02 PM

As far as I know downloading stuffs from torrents is risky these days. In some countries (maybe all of them) the ISP starts to monitor their customer torrents downloads. 1st download=friendly warning, 2nd=notice letter, 3rd and final warning=ISP will cut out their connection from you.

And, not ours here. They don't notice, else my Sister & Dad would be cut off lol.

polonus · « **Reply #7 on:** April 13, 2015, 07:18:16 PM »

Hi Michael,

Good your Sister and Dad do not live in France, there it is three strikes and out.
But whenever you are on a hoster that does not mind

.....

polonus

Staticguy · « **Reply #8 on:** April 14, 2015, 12:38:46 AM »

Quote from: Michael (alan1998) on April 13, 2015, 12:24:29 PM

Summary short. Torrenting is bad, and Illegal. Will Avast! Stop it? No. Do we recommend it? NO!

Quote from: Staticguy on April 12, 2015, 04:39:02 PM
As far as I know downloading stuffs from torrents is risky these days. In some countries (maybe all of them) the ISP starts to monitor their customer torrents downloads. 1st download=friendly warning, 2nd=notice letter, 3rd and final warning=ISP will cut out their connection from you.

And, not ours here. They don't notice, else my Sister & Dad would be cut off lol.

Hi Michael. Lucky for France. Lucky for you and your family

. It's already in affect in Australia. I am in just across the ditch aka New Zealand. Some ISP in New Zealand do take these steps but I don't know which ones. Definitely not my ISP, but I am not taking any chances. I used to download torrent stuffs many years ago. When this strict rules came in I started to download movies and musics from warez.bb. This website they upload legit stuffs and we can download them.