Guest miracle Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Is it safe using torrent client of win XP? thanks.
Guest R. McCarty Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: torrent client XP has no native support for Bit Torrent. You have to add a 3rd Party client. Safety is more related to the site(s) you access and the content you download than Bit Torrent itself. I use Opera browser and it has built-in Bit Torrent support. "miracle" <miracle@microsoft.news> wrote in message news:%23Wut7WbDJHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Is it safe using torrent client of win XP? > > > thanks.
Guest Xandros Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: torrent client What do you mean by "safe"? Torrent clients are software programs. Any poorly coded programs may cause operating system instability. Decent programs should work fine. The bigger concern is what are you downloading and where are you going to get your torrents? Obviously some downloads contain viruses and some sites will lead you to install spyware. If you plan to download anything get good antivirus and spyware software. I use NOD32 and Superantispyware. I also use uTorrent as my clients software. -- Xandros "miracle" <miracle@microsoft.news> wrote in message news:%23Wut7WbDJHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Is it safe using torrent client of win XP? > > > thanks.
Guest miracle Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: torrent client it was reported some versions of uTorrent contains vulnerability. What is bug-free version? miracle ----------- "Xandros" <arron.neus*remove*@gmail.com> wrote in message news:OLZDN4cDJHA.4696@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > What do you mean by "safe"? Torrent clients are software programs. Any > poorly coded programs may cause operating system instability. Decent > programs should work fine. The bigger concern is what are you downloading > and where are you going to get your torrents? Obviously some downloads > contain viruses and some sites will lead you to install spyware. If you > plan to download anything get good antivirus and spyware software. I use > NOD32 and Superantispyware. I also use uTorrent as my clients software. > > -- > > Xandros > > > "miracle" <miracle@microsoft.news> wrote in message > news:%23Wut7WbDJHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Is it safe using torrent client of win XP? >> >> >> thanks. > >
Guest Alec S. Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: torrent client miracle wrote (in news:e7YQZXdDJHA.524@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl): > it was reported some versions of uTorrent contains vulnerability. > What is bug-free version? 1.8 or newer. And even then, it was only if you use a TORRENT file that was specifically crafted to exploit the vulnerability, which of course depends on where you get it. -- Alec S. news/alec->synetech/cjb/net
Guest miracle Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: torrent client some folks claim that old vers. uTorrent 1.6.1 Build 488 is better than latest versions? miracle "Alec S." <@> wrote in message news:uscb5idDJHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > miracle wrote (in news:e7YQZXdDJHA.524@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl): > >> it was reported some versions of uTorrent contains vulnerability. >> What is bug-free version? > > 1.8 or newer. And even then, it was only if you use a TORRENT file that > was > specifically crafted to exploit the vulnerability, which of course depends > on > where you get it. > > -- > Alec S. > news/alec->synetech/cjb/net > >
Guest Alec S. Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: torrent client miracle wrote (in news:%23U5$8QeDJHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl): > some folks claim that old vers. uTorrent 1.6.1 Build 488 is better than > latest versions? So what? You didn’t ask which one’s better or nicer, you asked which one’s more secure. 1.6.1 would have the vulnerability too. Some folks blab about older versions being better because it was a little smaller and had less features. Some people like to act like they’re 1337 by saying that keeping software as stripped-down as possible makes it better. Maybe those people should stick with cripple-ware or lite versions of software; those are feature reduced. µTorrent 1.8 is only about 260KB (granted it is UPX compressed, but it’s still only about 519KB uncompressed). It has more features and is still very easy to use. It also has the latest patches to make it more secure and is still being developed and supported. There are places that you can download old copies of µTorrent (check FileHippo). Then you can check the changelog and see what major changes have occurred and try them for yourself to decide what you like the best. Nobody can tell you what you like as well as you can. As for the vulnerability, once again, it has been patched in 1.8 and up. You can probably use 1.6.1 or whatever you want safely if you don’t download TORRENT files from anywhere that you don’t 100% trust, because—so far at least—that is the only serious vulnerability that has been found. HTH -- Alec S. news/alec->synetech/cjb/net
Guest CaptAmerica Posted September 4, 2008 Posted September 4, 2008 Re: torrent client On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:10:48 +0300, "miracle" <miracle@microsoft.news> wrote: >Is it safe using torrent client of win XP? > > >thanks. Why ask here? XP has zero native ability to use Torrents. Ask elsewhere
Guest VanguardLH Posted September 4, 2008 Posted September 4, 2008 Re: torrent client miracle wrote: > Is it safe using torrent client of win XP? > > thanks. What do you think is "safe"? Are you asking about the files (or bits thereof) that are on your hard disks as you choose to be a node in their file sharing network which can contain kiddie porn, crackware, pirated software, stolen files, virus, malware, etc? Remember, the DA and FBI don't care about what excuse you give for those files being on your drive if they find them there. It's your property and you chose to have those files there. Some P2P setups do let you not be a store node but because you choose not to help in meshing the downloads across multiple nodes also means they may throttle your bandwidth using their software (i.e., you're just a leech and chose not to participate in facilitating their sharing function).
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