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mathewMay 6, 2012
 

 
Throwing my two cents Zip & Rar folders should be ok IF scanned first by a reputable high quality Virus Checker (i use Kaspersky). I personally would never open anything without scanning it first. . With anything common sense is a must.

Aside from the possible nasty ingredients of torrent sites i have never understood the whole thing of leeches and seeds, leeches sound horrible and nasty. 1 joined one but never used it, and it has a rating thing which just lost me in a world of 'huhs'.

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Espen Krømke" <espen.kromke@...> wrote:
>
> I've never had any problems with the kind of torrents we talk about here
> either. It's good practise to be careful, and if you don't know what you
> are doing you are probably better off not doing it, so there's been many
> good advices on this topic here in this list.
>
> I just want to make one thing clear here: There are no mp3 files with
> virus in them, simply cause there are no technical reason to insert a
> virus into them. There is nothing in an mp3 file that are executed, or
> "run". Those files are only read, so a virus inserted in a mp3 file
> would just cause a huge amount of noise when played and that's it. No
> program can ever start from within a mp3 file.
> So downloading mp3 files are, simply put, completely harmless.
>
> The kind of files you all need to be careful with are software, programs
> you run. With "software" I mean everything from a pirated copy of
> Windows to MS Office, Photoshop, all those kind of software and tools to
> "crack" them. That's where you find virus, trojans, spyware and so
> forth. Stay away from those, and you are pretty much safe when it comes
> to torrents.
>
> I *almost* dare to personally guarantee you all that there does not
> exist a single torrent containing Just A Minute recordings anywhere on
> the Internet that pose any risk at all. The torrent technology is well
> worth getting to know, it's an excellent technology. Just use a serious
> torrent site (several are mentioned already) and only download the
> collections that gives you direct access to the mp3 files (no "zip/rar"
> compressed files) and you are
>
>
>
> On 06. mai 2012 19:22, Don Judge wrote:
> > Agree with all/most of that, "caveat emptor" applies Big Time on
> > t'Internet, there's a lot of nasty people out there.
> >
> > However, you can negate most of that by sticking to Torrent sites
> > which you have to register to join - I do.
> > These include UKNova, The Box, Radioarchive, TV Torrents and more....
> > I've been a member of those, and more, for many years and have never
> > had an issue with any of them.
>

 
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