5 Steps to Finding the Best TorrentsWritten by Abdulrehman on November 11th, 2008
In my previous article about the virus attack or shall I say the torrent attack, I got multiple requests regarding what should be considered to find the best torrents and not being attacked by a virus. I have been through this and ever since I developed a few set of rules for every torrent that I downloaded and I did find the best torrents to download ever since, here are those 5 rules:
- The most important thing is to check the date when the torrent was added, make sure that the torrent is at least 5 days old, because if it is a virus it may takes up to 3 days for it to be discovered as a virus and cleaned from the system.
- Read the comments, and do not fall for it if there are as less as 3 comments. Usually if it is a virus, the person who made it can add 3 comments from different accounts just to make people believe in it. People usually tell in comments about the torrent, for example they’ll tell you if it is a virus.
The ratio between seeders and leechers is a very important aspect. Make sure that the ratio of seeders to leechers is somewhere around 5 : 4 or something similar to that. In case 1 if there are a lot more seeders than leechers then you can consider yourself to be wasting time to set it to downloading as you would not get any downloading speed, in Case 2 if there are five time more seeders than the leechers, then there is something fishy as hackers know how to easily fake the seeders count, if you’re not very good in mathematical ratios then check the Seeder Leecher Ratio Calculator and enter either the seeder or leecher of a torrent and it will tell you the suitable amount of the other one.- Use a good torrent site and always search for the same torrent in all of them as it will help you find the best one, I recommend the torrent sites listed below as they are the most reliable ones, although the first is the most recommended but the rest torrent search engines are not that bad either:
- Download torrents from famous users. Anonymous users usually put torrents of malicious softwares, for example if you want to download latest English movies you should search for the movies by aXXo or KLAXXON. It is best not to download torrents from guest and anonymous users.
I follow these 5 steps and have found the right torrents ever since, and this not only finds the right torrent but also protects you from virus torrents, and trust me you don’t want to be attacked by one!
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In my previous article about the virus attack or shall I say the torrent attack, I got multiple requests regarding what should be considered to find the best torrents and not being attacked by a virus. I have been through this and ever since I developed a few set of rules for every torrent that I downloaded and I did find the best torrents to download ever since, here are those 5 rules:
- The most important thing is to check the date when the torrent was added, make sure that the torrent is at least 5 days old, because if it is a virus it may takes up to 3 days for it to be discovered as a virus and cleaned from the system.
- Read the comments, and do not fall for it if there are as less as 3 comments. Usually if it is a virus, the person who made it can add 3 comments from different accounts just to make people believe in it. People usually tell in comments about the torrent, for example they’ll tell you if it is a virus.
- The ratio between seeders and leechers is a very important aspect. Make sure that the ratio of seeders to leechers is somewhere around 5 : 4 or something similar to that. In case 1 if there are a lot more seeders than leechers then you can consider yourself to be wasting time to set it to downloading as you would not get any downloading speed, in Case 2 if there are five time more seeders than the leechers, then there is something fishy as hackers know how to easily fake the seeders count, if you’re not very good in mathematical ratios then check the Seeder Leecher Ratio Calculator and enter either the seeder or leecher of a torrent and it will tell you the suitable amount of the other one.
- Use a good torrent site and always search for the same torrent in all of them as it will help you find the best one, I recommend the torrent sites listed below as they are the most reliable ones, although the first is the most recommended but the rest torrent search engines are not that bad either:
- Download torrents from famous users. Anonymous users usually put torrents of malicious softwares, for example if you want to download latest English movies you should search for the movies by aXXo or KLAXXON. It is best not to download torrents from guest and anonymous users.
I follow these 5 steps and have found the right torrents ever since, and this not only finds the right torrent but also protects you from virus torrents, and trust me you don’t want to be attacked by one!
i was right....
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 16 years old, study in grade 10 and live in Pakistan. I started this blog in the hope of making money on the internet, sharing my computer experiences and proving that despite many barriers, one can make money on the internet.
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You always come up with something creative, the Seeder Leecher Ratio Calculator is pretty nice, did you make it yourself? If so, then you’re pretty smart.
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Viruses are really the murderer of all programs. It’s nice to know that there is someone like you posting good ideas to prevent them. Thank you for the info. Keep it up. Thank you
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u are absolutely correct..i use the torrent same way as u said …i got no problem with that till now
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Good advice on torrents. I’m using bitcommet and this tips helps me to filter more virus contained files.
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What exactly is a torrent?
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Very informative post. One tip from my side, never every download .RAR files, as they always contain some malware or viruses.
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I often use Btjunkie, and never have had any virus report. Might be because my machine runs Linux?
:D
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I download all my media on my Mac. i don’t have to worry about viruses that way.
Of course, when i want to play a game, these are handy rules to follow.
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It is quite funny how all of the Obama supporters are following him as blindly as the Bush supporters have followed him. The truth is that Obama plays for the same team. Do some actual research. Obama was selected as president by the Bilderberg Group and the Tri Lateral Commission in hopes of furthering the agenda of the New World Order. In fact Google New World Order in Google News and the first headline from today is “G20 hopes to discuss plans for New World Order”. Obama will carbon tax people and install militarized youth groups. He even mentioned youth brigades in one of his campaign speeches. He mentioned that they will be as well funded as the US Army. Scary thought huh. Well I know in the zest to change this country people voted for what looked like obvious change and they will indeed get change. Change that will cripple the US and allow the large multinationals a chance to gobble up all of our land and assets.
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Your retarded the best way to dl torrents is private trackers.
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Excellent tips, thank you
I download axxo and klaxxon torrents exclusively without problems, it took me several years to learn what you outlined here in this one post
keep seedin’!
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Thank you. Nice Tips. I experienced this virus problem. So that day onwards i am downloading from those i trust. in those aXXo us also there.
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Nice tips for those who download stuff from torrents and i am one of them.
Thanks for the info.
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Heya, there.
I am using Mini Nova torrent engine and of course aXXo’s torrents.
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As an avid user and believer in torrents i love to see people spreading the news/ tips about them. I find it shocking when some of my friends ask me how i download stuff and have no idea what im talking about when I reply torrents.
Unfortunately people don’t always have the luxury of choosing torrents with alot of comments or a good ratio of seeders to leechers. My musical taste makes it hard sometimes to find even one torrent of a band I want. One time it took my 3 months to download 1 album because there was 1 seeder, 0 leechers, and that seeder seemed to rarely be online. In cases like there where comments are not an option to judge the quality be sure to scan the files to check for viruses, hopefully they get caught.
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Hi! Thanks for sharing this. I’ve been downloading movies, e-books and music via torrents. I wish I had read your post before I started downloading. So thank you, thank you, thank you!
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These are very important rules. Also if you find a virus port it in the comments ASAP along with Fake! etc.. Use VLC media player and associate the player with the extention of the currently downloaded torrent file extention. This is wicked important you can more likely then not play the file before you even get it. AKA as soon as you get like 200-300 you should be able to pop and play it depedning on the format.
That delay in time is important and if you flag something as a fake malware or virus or fake etc.. make sure you comment because the comment will show up right away and the flagged thing might show up 24 hours later.
All this stuff is great advice
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thank you for this, mate!
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great tips for pirates. lol
im using torrents.to , place where pirate gather
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torrentz is good if you want to download software because most of them are cracked files.
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Great tips.
I need torrents but I don’t need malware.
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