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Mar 25, 2021, 21:20 pm
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What was the torrent you downloaded? And was there any mention in the comments about this virus?
It would be easier to determine a course of action to remove it if we can identify what is affecting your system.
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I pasted the link to this torrent in the first post. i thought i was on the correct pirates bay site i did not immediately notice the suspiciously small file size. The virus has blocked access to some .exe files. There are messages such as "unable to run file in temporary folder, error 5 access denied" it seems that despite the fact that I have administrator rights, the system thinks that I do not have it. I used a few programs already, they found some crap that was removed other antivirus programs are blocked as above, it looks like the one you entered can be run, I will try and then restore the system settings to default maybe it will do something.
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Its not the mirror site, but rather the uploaders that are of issue. Sporgers infest many site areas and APPS is the worst.
Just take a look at armagadelhobbit.
Page after page of 12.6Mb files all with different names - a sure sign of a sporger. And the files are absolutely guaranteed to be boogers.
Watch out for videos with .scr or .lnk. In Win they are executable: Virus files for media.
That said, some mirror sites are disgusting and are themselves risky to simply view. Some are benign, or aparently so with a well protected system. Like the one from the OP. But even TPB has its nasties for the unprotected.
The *most* important item for downloaders on torrents is WHO the uploaders are. ALWAYS check their history, to make sure they are not one day wonders, whose accounts get cancelled after their reign of terror ends.
there are some legit one time posters. They will only post a few files, and all will be obviously different.
Plus new folk had better learn the basics of system operation. If you know what you are doing you can often take real malware, and safely extract data from it. Some scummers often have *real* stuff wrapped inside their boogers. Do NOT try this at home without a good understanding (and a sandbox).
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True.
I like the tradtional layout of the .asian mirror better, and it seems to be in lockstep.
Not sure about their redirects, but after 5 minutes of dumping them in HOSTS, seems fine.
I see APPS is swept this morning.
Time for 'breakfast'.
I'd like to avoid the format. I've been fighting for two days and trying to get rid of there is a virus that is in the torrent at the given link, will there be someone brave who will identify what this shit is and how delete? 
