tips to identify or spot fake torrents before downloading huge file... did you downloaded several gigs of information from torrent and came to know it was just a huge pile of garbage data? recently i had the two incidence where i downloaded 2 files of size 4.2 GB and 3.1GB total of 7+ GB but then when i tried to run the files i came to know that it was fake 4 days of wait and system time bandwidth all went into vain.
Most of the time people who are new to p2p file sharing falls in this trap but occasionally even experienced cannot separate wheat from the chaff.
so who upload the fake torrents and why? most of the time the fake file up loaders are MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America ), RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) and other anti piracy watch dogs the main moto of the these organization are to collect the IP Addresses of the users who download these files..
recently fakers(anti piracy watch dogs) are becoming increasingly more in numbers in the p2p world wating for you to download the copyrighted material record your ip and sue you for downloading it though 70% of internet users use torrents even 15% of the don't know how the torrents work what are leechers, seeders, trackers, peers etc, what they all know is just click on the torrent file wait for the download to complete...
It is said that for every 10 files downloaded 3 -4 files are fake and most of the codecs and software files littered around in the p2p contains all kind of malware, virus, scams, key loggers etc so p2p world is filled with all kinds of people from anti piracy trackers to hackers and virus and malware uploaders so next time be careful while downloading any file from the torrents.
so how to know whether the torrent is a fake? below are the few tips you can watch for before downloading a file:
1. First of all use the trusted torrent client software from reputed vendor such as: uTorrent, BitTorrent or Vuze some torrent clients are said to seed malware and other kind of viruses.
2. If you find files with lot of instruction and other kind of things such as password protected etc then this could smell sign of fake because most of the torrent uploaders are straight and rarely include any read me file with hell lot of instructions in it.
3. Some torrents like fenopy employ a few core users as moderators who actually have the authority to set the verified status if its a genuine file always look for verified status before download it.
4. Just google for trackers if its a legitimate uploader than you can see relevant hits in google else you can find assorted results in google this is other way of identifying fakers
5. If a torrent says it requires a special software to extract the file or play the file or suggest to download a anonymous codec then it is surely a fake torrent
6. Last but not least always read the comments if OP has disabled the comment or the comments contains at least one negative comment then the torrent is fake you can see many of them bashing negative commenter which is a sign of the torrent is fake.
though these are the some of the observation i made in few years of torrents usage if you know or like to add still more tips feel free to add in the comment section so that others can benefit from it, and always be careful before downloading else you might end up with garbage data...
Most of the time people who are new to p2p file sharing falls in this trap but occasionally even experienced cannot separate wheat from the chaff.so who upload the fake torrents and why? most of the time the fake file up loaders are MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America ), RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) and other anti piracy watch dogs the main moto of the these organization are to collect the IP Addresses of the users who download these files..
recently fakers(anti piracy watch dogs) are becoming increasingly more in numbers in the p2p world wating for you to download the copyrighted material record your ip and sue you for downloading it though 70% of internet users use torrents even 15% of the don't know how the torrents work what are leechers, seeders, trackers, peers etc, what they all know is just click on the torrent file wait for the download to complete...
It is said that for every 10 files downloaded 3 -4 files are fake and most of the codecs and software files littered around in the p2p contains all kind of malware, virus, scams, key loggers etc so p2p world is filled with all kinds of people from anti piracy trackers to hackers and virus and malware uploaders so next time be careful while downloading any file from the torrents.
so how to know whether the torrent is a fake? below are the few tips you can watch for before downloading a file:
1. First of all use the trusted torrent client software from reputed vendor such as: uTorrent, BitTorrent or Vuze some torrent clients are said to seed malware and other kind of viruses.
2. If you find files with lot of instruction and other kind of things such as password protected etc then this could smell sign of fake because most of the torrent uploaders are straight and rarely include any read me file with hell lot of instructions in it.
3. Some torrents like fenopy employ a few core users as moderators who actually have the authority to set the verified status if its a genuine file always look for verified status before download it.
4. Just google for trackers if its a legitimate uploader than you can see relevant hits in google else you can find assorted results in google this is other way of identifying fakers
5. If a torrent says it requires a special software to extract the file or play the file or suggest to download a anonymous codec then it is surely a fake torrent
6. Last but not least always read the comments if OP has disabled the comment or the comments contains at least one negative comment then the torrent is fake you can see many of them bashing negative commenter which is a sign of the torrent is fake.
though these are the some of the observation i made in few years of torrents usage if you know or like to add still more tips feel free to add in the comment section so that others can benefit from it, and always be careful before downloading else you might end up with garbage data...
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