I really had to make this post but had no idea as to where to place it.
Its been 7 years that I've been using uTorrent DAILY without ANY infections due to its use.
My browser (Firefox) has been hijacked quite often following news and current affairs links (I hated getting Rick Rolled).
I have a USER account, not an ADMINISTRATOR account that I surf the net and DL with.
My USER browser is B/U to the Admin account, so deleting the browser if infected and reinstalling is no big issue.
I have avast! Home Free, MBAM Pro, and OA Firewall. The only REAL protection I get is avast!, nothing else catches anything, avast! is my 1st line of defence.
Paying for MBAM Pro was a waist of money, I will come back to SBS&D when 2.0 final is released.
This 'THING' you have regarding the use of torrent clients, I don't get it....
Why have a member delete this program when its more likely to get infected following current affairs links, than surfing for porn or DLing torrents?!
Even when I had XP Pro, I never got infected from torrents, I was more likely to get infected from an email back then, but avast! has always caught it quickly.
It was a big jump from 32 bit XP to 64 bit W7 on my HP ENVY 3290NR 3D and I feel that my likelihood of getting a serious dedicated 64 bit infection is minimal, especially because I have a USER ACCOUNT for surfing the net, and I DL torrents/programs to a separate hard drive, not the drive that includes my OS, or a partition of my drive that includes my OS.
I also install my 'GAMES' I DL(torrents/cracked) to separate drive, as recommended by the makers, not on a partition on the OS drive.
Now for the Nitty Gritty......
Windows recommends that you start a USER account, this is, as I understand, the same as LINUX ([UNIX]and its offshoots/MAC/Android/etc) as you do not have 'ROOT' (ADMINISTRATOR in Windows) permission for an infection to get to your OS. An infection can bugger up a lot of programs, but it will not get to the OS, it will not have permission to execute(.exe) unless you let it buy giving it the permission to install.
This is the same for game makers, do not install the program to your OS or a partition of your OS drive, this is what they recommend, even more so with DL'd game files.
Why is there no 'STICKY', on any of your threads, anywhere on your forum enforcing the the BASIC operating structure, recommended by Windows(Microsoft) to do your daily work from a USER ACCOUNT?
Yet you insist that a simple torrent program be removed if infected.