Torrents.

[niki]

Is there some applications which can tell in advance that this particular torrent will download virus as all anti-virus tell only after the whole is being downloaded.

[JenniP]

Basically no, you may get lucky and when a torrent packet is written to disk it triggers off the AV but its fairly unlikely.

Your best bet is just using "trusted" torrent sites and keeping a good backup of your PC.

One good way to test though is having a virtual pc, install the software inside that, spyware and AV scan it if its ok install it on your main PC.

Jen

[attagirl]

I agree that this is a big problem. But there is not much you can really do about this other than let your AV software pick them up. I would not download from unsafe sites or places that you question.

[funtoosh]

The best way is to read the reviews of the users who have downloaded that torrent. Most good sites provide reviews.

[blasted]

Yes as funtoosh stated i agree strongly that you must read the users reviews of that certain product.If its really bad there would be a bunch of bad reviews stating the problems people had.Good luck in getting the correct software.