Beware when BT!!

Regarding some news information from Cnet News, I found out that nowadays BT is becoming more dangerous. Especially there is adware, spyware and worse virus is hiding inside the torrent files. Since, BT now is used widely around the world in sharing files. Some people exploit the use of BT technology to spread virus to BT peers.

Files like videos and music now may have adware and spyware hiding inside without notice by Bt leechers when they download it and it is globally distributed over the Bt web sites. Actually, BT is a virus free technology compare to P2P which is worse because it has no central search technology exists where the P2P software itself such as Kazaa have been already associated with adware and spyware. Therefore the only way to spread the adware and spyware is through hiding inside the torrent files.

In conclusion, the simple way to avoid these problems is to avoid download torrent sources from untrusted web site. We must also always check for the files that we have downloaded whether the file is in exe format or not from the torrent before we start downloading because it is obviously an executable virus. For example, if we are downloading movies, the extension must be in avi or rmvb those video format instead of exe. We must also not forget to scan for virus with anti-virus software after the download complete for safety purpose. It may be troublesome but for our computer safety wasting one or two minutes may save our computer from the evil adware, spyware or even the virus that may bring harm to our computer.

Internet Resources:
Spyware and adware hide in BitTorrent downloads, News at CNET.co.uk, [Doc, Online], 28 June 2007
URL: http://news.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029694,39190147,00.htm