QUOTE (Nat @ May 1 2006, 09:09 PM) Anyhow this brought up a question for me. If someone else has a virus and they are my seed or seeder or whatever it's called, can I get any virus that they have?
Extremely unlikely sice data transfer from BT goes throught a hash check. So your virus would need the same hash values as the real data. The probabilities of that happening are close to nothing.
Of course, if you downlaod a torrent that has a virus in it from the start, it is another thing entirely. Don't forget virus are programs like any other programs. So if you CHOOSE to download a torrent that has a file that is (and always was) a virus, you will of course download what you asked for ... a virus!
But as long as you don't download things you don't know about, you should be safe. For examples, fansubs can be considered very safe since subbing group take great pride in their work and it is not very easy to transform a video file into an active virus.
QUOTE I'm now using two new virus programs which are supposed to be way better than Norton which didn't catch it until it was too late. Not a good idea. NEVER run more than one firewall or anti-virus. Other wise they may end up thinking that the other anti-virus is a virus and they will "attack" one another!
Extremely unlikely sice data transfer from BT goes throught a hash check. So your virus would need the same hash values as the real data. The probabilities of that happening are close to nothing.
Of course, if you downlaod a torrent that has a virus in it from the start, it is another thing entirely. Don't forget virus are programs like any other programs. So if you CHOOSE to download a torrent that has a file that is (and always was) a virus, you will of course download what you asked for ... a virus!
But as long as you don't download things you don't know about, you should be safe. For examples, fansubs can be considered very safe since subbing group take great pride in their work and it is not very easy to transform a video file into an active virus.
QUOTE I'm now using two new virus programs which are supposed to be way better than Norton which didn't catch it until it was too late. Not a good idea. NEVER run more than one firewall or anti-virus. Other wise they may end up thinking that the other anti-virus is a virus and they will "attack" one another!