What happened in Applications/Windows this morning???

[monsterboyGuest]

Hello,

This morning I noticed some strange behaviour going on in the Applications/Windows forum.

A user was UL a new torrent every minute. The screenshot shows what I mean:http://bayimg.com/eaPcLaAFp

These were clearly fake as many filenames said "Android" or "APK" but were uploaded to Applications/Windows.

Here is what I don't understand:

Even though the torrents were uploaded only 30 or so minutes earlier, they still had several hundred seeders and leechers.

For example, Adobe Reader 11.0.6 (Premium Version) was uploaded 44 minutes earlier but managed to acquire 319 seeders and 203 leechers.

Is it normal to get so many seeders in such a short space of time?

Also, what do you think the UL's motivation was? (All his/her torrents have been removed).

Thanks! I'm new to torrents so don't understand what happened earlier today.

[stormium]

the number of seeders and leechers were being faked.

[GuestGuest]

the number of seeders and leechers were being faked.

How is that possible?

What was the uploader trying to achieve?

Thanks.

[NIK]

There are various ways it can be done, but we're not here to teach them.

They were trying to convince people the torrents were genuine, by virtue of being popular, so that they would download and install them (and the malware bundled with them).

Large no's of torrents being uploaded all at once, and torrents with implausible are, as you've worked out, reasons to avoid every downloading new torrents. Most such attempts are caught and deleted before you even see them but sometimes the mods slip out for an Ouzo and they slip into sight for a while.