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Originally Posted by pgil64  I downloaded Nero 7 from The Pirate Bay and got a bad virus which took my computer completely down for a month. I eventualy had to reinstall Windows and all my applications. Like AaronWalkhouse said in previous - Virus check everything downloaded ( especially . zip files ) before you open it. Once you extract it, you allow it to get into your system unchecked. The one I had could not be found or removed with any of the half dozen programs I tried. It changed characters all over the registry and the environmental variables. It also disabled much of the windows environment, corrupted antivirus & firewall programs and diabled internet access. |
Better to download a trial from a legitimate source and take it from there... than trust any software listed on a P2P network especially gnutella where you don't have any real info on a download. But if you must... don't trust files that claim to be the newest. Check to see if there is such a new version of a program. If there are multiple versions of the same file... don't trust the larger one. It might include a virus. Bittorrent might be a better place to download software since tracker sites often have user comments warning of viruses. None the less, downloading ANY software is taking a risk.
As for DVD's... it is safer to just rent them or get them from your local library than download a degraded copy from the internet. There are plenty of free programs that can rip and compress DVDs resulting in much a better quality file than any DIVX file from the web.