Really unsure if ima install or not certain torrent

[LuxBellum]

Hello, im really lost on this, back on the day torrents used to have an "upvote" counter, which would have made you rely or trust certain torrents, now im not sure if this has been removed or I just dont find it. However, on thepiratebay I see some torrents with a green or purple skull, or no skull at all. Is green skull a 95% reliability ? What does purple skull mean ? What would you recommend me to do before running an exe or rar comming from any torrent ?

Thank you.

[ill88eagle]

Purple skull means trusted
Green skull means VIP

There used to be a faq here telling you to use sandboxie to check out any .exe files
There used to be VIP uploaders here explain their virus totals before uploading
TPB never had an upvote function (for good reasons)

You downloading an executable you not sure about, use sandboxie https://sandboxie-plus.com/downloads/ to test it out (assuming you are on windows, i mean exe files amirite?)
Or use virtualbox which is completely and entirely free and allows you to run any OS inside a virtual machine https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads whereby whatever malicious code you run inside will never affect your main system

Or be that guy coming here to tell other people to test the stuff you have an inkling might be malicious so their machines get infected instead of yours. In that case at least post the link to the torrent and pray someone is nice enough to stick their neck out for you without knowing you at all.

You are welcome