May 30, 2008 How do I use Bittorrent/Pirate Bay safely? Report Abuse. Are you sure that you want to delete this answer? UTorrent is a relatively small but powerful program and BTJunkie offers user comments on the download file which will help you filter out the good from the bad. Also, as advised above, scan all. Sep 2, 2018 - You can become an expert at finding reliable and safe torrents and downloading them in no time. Here's how to download from The Pirate Bay!
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Jan 11, 2019 - The Pirate Bay allows you to search for torrents and magnet links to. It's possible that when you click on a magnet link to download a file, that. The Pirate Bay, YTS.ag, Torrent project, RarBG, EZTV, 1337X are the popular movies and TV torrenting sites people use to download content illegally. And to keep illegal downloading under control, around 500 sites including these torrent download sites are blocked. Now, let’s answer the big question.
(ANSWER)
Pirate Bay is a 'search' engine or 'directory' for torrentfile's. The site itself cannot be renounced as safe though as ithosts a list of third party viruses and deadly pop ups. Then withthat comes the viruses and trojans of torrents. You never can bequite sure whether a torrent is safe or not, so it is best tolisten to the comments of others as they will report viruses andquality of a torrent. Remember that most torrents listed onthepiratebay's server are not affiliated with it and can beuploaded by anyone and may be illegal to download (Copyrightinfringement)
( a little perspective)
The Pirate Bay is not 100% safe, but it is the best around. Ihave been using their site for years, with pretty extensive AVcoverage, and have not noticed anything. The Pirate Bay did have anissue with a virus on their homepage a while ago, but that is donewith. I RECOMMENDED DOWNLOADING ONLY AUDIO FILES FROM TORRENTINGSITES. I cannot stress that enough. There are virtually no negativeside effects of torrenting audio files, no viruses, and the RIAAhas stopped suing everybody and their mother.
( why is it done)
On the contrary to the last post, the reason that the fake'Anti-Virus' has been installing itself on visitors is because itis from pop-ups that come up when you enter onto the Pirate Bay.Therefore you do not even have to attempt to download a file to getthe virus. I have spoken on many forums for opinion from veteranson how to counteract this and many people cited popup blockers (anadvanced one such as adblock) but those have been verified not towork. I have also read that the pop ups were only for one weekendand that the problem has been fixed. To my chagrin, that is nottrue. The probably still exists presently (5/3/10)
This is also not confined to the pirate bay. If you usetorrentpond, sumotorrent or some other smaller torrent sites, youwill have the same pop up with the same virus (Anti-virus 2010). Sosteer clear. I have downloaded hundreds of gigabytes over severalyears and have never ever had a problem and consider myself aboutan 8 when it comes to computer literacy and expertise (out of 10),and have still yet to solve the problem. I do not believe itaffects macs though, but I hate buying an overpriced hunk of junkwith a brand on it that I can't even upgrade or customize. But ifyou have an apple, you may have lucked out when it comes to dlingtorrents.
So you ask 'why install garbage viruses on peoples' comps?' Totake from the movie 'Wallstreet', 'What is worth doing is worthdoing for money.' Unlike regular popups where the webmaster makesonly makes pennies or less per pop up, a virus loaded on a victim'scomputer will net from $2.00 to $2.50 a person! That is a huge markup. You screw over a ton of people who probably wont go to yoursite again, but you just made a ton of money (and they're hopingthey can make up the traffic later claiming the virus is a 'glitch'or something like that). There are actually a small section ofadvertising companies who specialize in this, and they change namesand stuff all the time, for obvious reasons.
Anyways guys be careful because since the beginning of 2010, thetorrent game is not how it used to be so if you want to chance it,back up your documents and keep a recovery CD or partitionhandy.
(pcphantom added):
I would like to add as of 12/11/2010 the viruses on ThePirateBayare still there. If there is another site, I know nothing of thisbut the same link from my bookmark that is 3+ years old does indeedcause the infection.
I would also like to point out that though I haven't reallycared enough to work on a way to browse the site safely (I am suresomething like safe mode browsing with no cookies and no pop-ups orredirects would probably do it), I do happen to repair computersfor a living.
The virus is fairly easy to remove, AVG and Spybot don't removeit because their worthless. You want safety against this program,or almost any other bogus anti-virus, install 'Malware-Bytes'. It'sfree, you can even install it in safe mode. The first sign of afake av like antivirus 2010, hard power down your PC, don't waitfor shut down. Then boot in safe mode with networking. Afterwards,go into internet settings, turn off the bogus proxy that your fakeAV installed, put internet connections back to 'Auto Detect' (theywill be changed to a proxy within seconds of getting the fake av,this is how the AV eventually downloads the whole program). Thenmake sure malware-bytes is updated, run a quick scan, that'senough, clear the program out. If you have had it a while and it'shad a chance to download more, run the whole scan. Then use aprogram like 'glary utilities' or hijackthis and do their 'hijackrecovery' to restore the settings the AV hijacked. I litterallycaught the Antivirus 2010 on this computer 20 minutes beforewriting this, my computer is fine now, I haven't reformatted acomputer I own because of a virus in well over a decade.
(most recent by pcphantom)
If you use a program like 'peerblock', have it updated, andblock http, the virus will not get through. If the virus has gottenthrough, when you change the proxy settings back, write down the IPof the proxy, add it to your firewall or peerblock to theblacklist, if you block the proxy IP, the worst that can happen iswhen the script tries to change it, you'll get no internetconnection error, then just go take the proxy off.
To pcphantom (from writer)
Thanx for the great advice because i was going to go on piratebay to download a antivirus and now i no don't go on it at allthanx will avast free antivirus get rid of the viruses? but thanxagain
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Simply put, no.
If you keep your settings in a manor in which you avoid theinstaller all together, one good way is to not use an adminaccount, use a limited account such as a guest account and like theperson below me stated, don't allow the addons or popups to run(addon most important). If it's too late and you already have afake AV hijacking your computer, follow the steps I listed. If youhave the infection there are actually very few AV programs thatwill remove it. I am sure there may be a couple out there, but noneof what is known as 'main stream'. AVG, Avast, Norton, McAffe,Panda, etc. will remove it. Microsoft Security Essentials does noteven remove most of them, though there are a couple it will whichis more than I can say for the before mentioned big name ones. I'veremoved these things from computers with Spybot, Spyware Blaster,Ad-aware pro and many other forms of protection. If you protectyourself, you're 'probably' going to be okay, and can even avoidthe one from Pirate bay. If you're past that, give up your pride inholding onto whatever AV you're attached to, follow the steps Ilisted, and you'll be clean. Otherwise, you have a reformat in yournear future.
As a side note, I'd considered using the 'pro' version ofmalware-bytes, but I believe most of these fake AV's have anability in them to detect your AV software, much like windowssecurity center does, and have the ability to deactivate them. Iuse the Microsoft Security Essentials because it's light, fairlydecent, and makes a great decoy. When the fake AV from pirate bayattacked my AV, it shut down MSE, but completely ignoredMalware-bytes which is passive. So restarting my computer andrunning MB in safe mode was easy. Also, consider this, not manyAV's or Fake AV's can actually run in safe mode, this is why Ifound that MB being able to install, run, and clean from safe modewas fairly impressive. As this system works and works very well,I've seen no reason to change it. Cleaning others computers, I'vebeen exposed to all sorts of malware, spyware, viruses, you nameit, I've never had one take down my system. I've had ones try, theyall fail. My knowledge of other AV's is not from useage, it'ssimply from knowing those AV's to be installed on computers I ampaid to remove viruses from.
(Below this point is not pcphantom)
I am on the PirateBay right now as I type this 12/18/10. I visitthe piratebay weekly and I have never had a virus from there,however I did get one from ISOhunt (another torrent site) last yearvery similar to the one you have described. When I go to the siteusing IE the information bar reads: 'POP-UP blocked. Also, to helpyour security Internet Explored blocked other content from thissite. click her for options'.
I never allow the add-on or the pop-up to have permission. I useSpyBots S&D browser Immunity feature and update monthly. All IEsecurity settings are set to medium or medium high. I am guessingthat is what keeps me safe. BTW I think the virus uses avulnerability in flash. If not, I am fairly certain that Fake virusprotection scanning screen is using a flash format and yourplayer.
03/11/11-
There is currently a virus on their home page, redirecting youto this site when you attempt to download torrents:http://download.premium.netdna-cdn.com/V1/P32/index.HTML
It installs a toolbar attached to your current one. It is verydifficult to remove as well.
Im not going to edit the original answer but i have been usingthe site 4 6 years and 2 of them with no antivirus and the onlyproblem i have ever had is with popups but u have to do is closethem :) the site is a brilliant addution to the internet!
ok seriously just don't use piratebay because your bound to getviruses on your computer. im my oppinon don't use it or limewire orfrostwire. i think you should only use it if you know how to fixyour computer of viruses. in all though just don't use it. i usekickasstorrents and i got viruses but those were small and i easilygot them off. torrent downloading is fine just as long as you haveprotection on your computer and you know how to use it. but ya itseasy to get viruses from streaming sites too. youtube is finethough (i hope :) ) anyways just becareful and don't be stupid whendownloading because i use to be a bit dumb when it came tocomputers and i got a tone of viruses because of it. so be smartwhen your on your computer ok :)
The core peter v brett epub download. (barry answered)..
Install Web of Trust on your browser. (http://www.mywot.com) Aseach popup opens WOT blocks it with a warning if the site has a badrating. You can then close the window with no ill effect to yourcomputer. It's still annoying, but at least you're protected frommalware.
In my experience, PeerBlock's 'Block HTTP' feature does not stopthese popups from appearing, although there's no doubt someprotection there.
Lastly: Downloading an antivirus program from ThePirateBay tofight a virus you might get from ThePirateBay may not be thesmartest path to take. You can get excellent free antivirussoftware from Microsoft (www.Microsoft.com/security_essentials) orAvast (http://www.avast.com/en-us/free-antivirus-download).
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the pirate bay has virus you can only get if you have no av thisis a good av its 100% virus free works on pcs and macs and is freego on http://www.agv.com
it get rid of all harmfull stuff
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Another great program to use is K9 Web Protection. I use it tokeep my Kids safe but it also blocks popups and Ads excellently. Italso blocks potentially harmfull sites due to viruses or adware. Itis a definite must have. I also would like to know if this questionis about thepiratebay.se or piratebay.com
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The Pirate Bay is a website where you can download BitTorrent files. Elaborating that, The Pirate Bay is a site that can give you access to programs you usually have to pay for. For instance, search NoLimits on google, and go to the website. It's 30 dollars USD price. On The Pirate Bay, you can download it for free. You can't be 100% sure if there's a virus there, so if you do use it… Read More
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Frostwire is good :) also pirate bay you have to download utorrent with pirate bay though :) Read More
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You must have utorrent, when you click 'download torrent' on the pirate bay, it will start downloading on utorrent. Read More
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You can use any torrent client you would like such as BitTorrent,uTorrent,Transmission. Read More
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It is legal to download a file for use as a backup is legal IF you already own it. Read More
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Proxies are out of date and not really reliable. Use VPNs. Read More
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Yes! I know personally someone who has just received a demand for £500.00 for downloading a single album from Pirate Bay. Read More
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Yes. Receiving copyrighted material and not paying for it is illegal. If you were to download from Pirate Bay, it would be illegal. Read More
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