Hacking Are torrents safe?

[night_chrono]

I was working tech support the day after the payload hit. It was madness! Nearly every call was for "Operating system not found".

Actually there was one virus that I know of that could cause physical damage to hardware. It sent all kinds of malicious commands to the hard drive which resulted in the read/write head hitting the platter(s) and breaking. I'm sure it was device dependent and was the result of poor quality in the hard drive.

you filthy necro poster.

 

[mattlouf]

And as for dual-booting XP and Vista, it takes about an hour to install XP (more if you're going to re-format your hard disk), it took me 4 hours to partition my hard disk, and at least another hour to install Vista. In the middle of exams, I don't have time for that surprisingly.

If it takes 4 hours to partition a hard disk, you're doing something wrong. Rewriting the partition table might take 20 seconds. Formatting an 80Gig partition should take < 20 minutes.

Not when your hard drive is full of files.
Partioning a HDD with giga can be very long (data to transfert from one partition to another).

 

[Soopy]

And as for dual-booting XP and Vista, it takes about an hour to install XP (more if you're going to re-format your hard disk), it took me 4 hours to partition my hard disk, and at least another hour to install Vista. In the middle of exams, I don't have time for that surprisingly.

If it takes 4 hours to partition a hard disk, you're doing something wrong. Rewriting the partition table might take 20 seconds. Formatting an 80Gig partition should take < 20 minutes.

Not when your hard drive is full of files.
Partioning a HDD with giga can be very long (data to transfert from one partition to another).

if you do a quick format it might take 20 seconds. if you do a full format it might take 4 hours because a full format checks the state of your hard drive at the same time for errors or any kind of corruption.

 

[ganons]

what about ipfilter.dat for u torrent? i read that it blocks suspicious ip's

 

[Narin]

what about ipfilter.dat for u torrent? i read that it blocks suspicious ip's

Still doesn't protect you since the torrent server still broadcasts your IP when someone connects looking for peers or when you go download a file. Your IP is basically all thats needed to have the media company to retrieve your information from your ISP.

 

[Fat Slaughter Ba]

Has anyone hear heard of PeerGuardian? I'm pretty sure it blocks known malicious IPs, but I'm not sure... correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[killplaystation]

Has anyone hear heard of PeerGuardian? I'm pretty sure it blocks known malicious IPs, but I'm not sure... correct me if I'm wrong.

it does, p2p, ads, government. But its not perfect. It's like putting locks on the doors of your house, you are not guaranteed to not be robbed, but it helps.
Private trackers for the win

 

[Linguist]

I just don't understand one thing:
in which way should be downloading a wad file dangerous for the OS on the PC? it's not a file that can be executed or be opened in any way.
if your dl client has any malicous code or security leak, that would be dangerous.

Installing a wad file could be dangerous in theory:. Somebody can write a wad do brick your wii but alleging that this wad file is some other wad file.

 

[Narin]

I just don't understand one thing:
in which way should be downloading a wad file dangerous for the OS on the PC? it's not a file that can be executed or be opened in any way.
if your dl client has any malicous code or security leak, that would be dangerous.

Installing a wad file could be dangerous in theory:. Somebody can write a wad do brick your wii but alleging that this wad file is some other wad file.

QUOTE(Fat Slaughter Bad @ May 28 2008, 09:37 PM) Has anyone hear heard of PeerGuardian? I'm pretty sure it blocks known malicious IPs, but I'm not sure... correct me if I'm wrong.

it does, p2p, ads, government. But its not perfect. It's like putting locks on the doors of your house, you are not guaranteed to not be robbed, but it helps.
Private trackers for the win

Please see this post:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?s=&showto...t&p=1145944

PeerGuardian does nothing to protect you, all it does is give you a false sense of security. If anything, it causes more harm than good do to people absusing the PeerGaurdian IP database and submitting legit IP addresses so people get blocked from legit sites and services. Also its just a waste of resources.

Also PrivateTrackers aren't in better, are they slightly safer? Yes. Are you completely safe? No. What stops the RIAA, MPAA or anyone one else from signing up or getting a private account either by signing up manually or bribing someone who is already a member with money for an invite. This has been done before, you are no safer on a private tracker than a normal tracker really. I was using a private tracker and still got busted which ended up me doing alot of research into the matter. Into torrents, Usernets, PeerGauardian and so on. The only safe way to priate is not pirate at all or rent movies and games from a rental place online or in person, make a copy of them your self. Otherwise you're always at risk.

 

[ganons]

so how does 1 spoof their ip address? i noticed on irc when i check my window its got my ip and when i pm others i notive it has some random name ie its me mario

 

[cracker]

so how does 1 spoof their ip address? i noticed on irc when i check my window its got my ip and when i pm others i notive it has some random name ie its me mario

What you're seeing is different than IP spoofing. They are using proxies to connect. You just connect to the proxy server first and then it passes all of the info between your computer and the end server (hosting IRC, web, torrents, etc) so it appears that the proxy server is your computer.

 

[night_chrono]

so how does 1 spoof their ip address? i noticed on irc when i check my window its got my ip and when i pm others i notive it has some random name ie its me mario

http://www.tech-faq.com/proxy-sites.shtml

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

The right person can send you the right file that can PHYSICALLY kill you computer. You know, make it so you are buying a new one.

What drugs are you on? Show me an example of a virus/trojan or anything else that can physically kill your PC.

Been a bit since I have read this thread. But for those that have not become aware of it, TrolleyDave generally has nothing kind to say to ANYthing I post. I would expect him refute or disagree with me if I said water was wet.

Are torrents safe. In the end, the last word is torrents are safe in the same way airplanes are safe.

Everytime you turn on your computer, go online, you are opening up a lot of possibilities. Sure, some of your choices won't be all that wise. I regularly visit sites I likely should get my head examined for.
I always find it funny though, that all of my past troubles have come from doing harmless meaningless stuff that wasn't even capable of being called "dangerous". Life's like that.

The guy that taught me all I know about computers and the internet, has twice come incredibly close to losing several hundred gigs of precious data. And all because he was basically just lazy at the time. No amount of brains will protect the brightest of us from ourselves.

Use torrents all you like. But eventually any of us can roll the dice and get the one in a million result.

As for the original assertion quoted above, sorry, I can't "show you" any specific malicious methodology to reach out and screw your computer. But I know it can be done. I also know a lot of neuro surgeons can do a lot of incredible things too. And I can't give you any examples there either. It has something to do with my not being THAT sort of expert. It's not about my being incapable of proving the statement as if it's just BS.

 

[Trolly]

No amount of brains will protect the brightest of us from ourselves.

That's oh so very true.

And I think the rest of your post managed to conclude and summarise what the whole of this thread has been trying to say, so well said.

Now can we let this topic die lol? The guy got his answer ages ago...