That way the P2P people either don't connect to you, or never see your real IP address. Lawsuits are pretty easy to avoid by using a VPN through a proxy server, or running PeerBlock and keeping it updated. Virtual PC has been free for a while, and will take a duplicate install of your OS.Ī virus is a pretty rare thing to get from BitTorrent downloads if you take basic precautions. You can just rewind the virtual machine to before you booted it.
If you're going to be the first for a download, do it in a virtual machine, so if it gets infected it won't kill your main OS. Unlike LimeWire or such, you get verification that the file is what you think it is, from the comment thread, unless you are the first to download it. If that IP address uploads too many pieces with a mismatched fingerprint, it gets blocked, and the other peers get informed about the bad one.
If a virus infects any of the files after the torrent is created, it changes the fingerprint, and the downloaded piece will be rejected before it is assembled with the rest of the files, stopping the virus from executing. The files are fingerprinted, and broken up into smaller pieces which are each fingerprinted. If the original file set when the torrent was created didn't have a virus, you can't catch one from BitTorrent. It's the least risky P2P application when it comes to viruses, since 1) you have a comment thread on most trackers, where people can report if the download contains a virus, and 2) that the torrent file itself contains the fingerprints for every piece of every file in the batch, which gets compared as each piece gets downloaded.
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