Is the use of BitTorrent legal?

damien · Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 8

I got a Lenovo computer last month. They also installed me an ADSL connection. A friend installed me software for movie downloading. He told me that it is great for downloading movies from the net. Everything worked great until yesterday. Now, whenever I try to connect to Internet ISP is not responding. A friend told me that I might have a Trojan Horse downloader virus. What is that? What is BitTorrent and how to get it? Is the use of BitTorrent legal?

taddeo · Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 7

From your story, I am almost completely certain that your friend is right and that you have some sort of virus on your computer. It may be a virus from category of Trojan Horse. Those types of viruses are designed to aloud access to hard disk content on your computer to his owners. BitTorrent is software for movie downloading and it is also very prone to virus attack. It is completly legal. I had to reinstall my computer few times because of torrent using and viruses. However, at last I found out what is a cure for that. The cure is combination of AVG and Seagate firewall. You should also check with your ISP doesn't they have some server problems. If nothing else helps, Windows reinstallation will.

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Is the use of BitTorrent legal?

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