Comments on: Vertor: a site for “verified” torrents

By: cheemzy

cheemzy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:34:40 +0000

it’s been a long time not downloading torrent.. i’d rather download from rapid*hare

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:35:51 +0000

@all : Here the same fact arises that most of the torrents are user created and the database is so huge that guaranteeing clean downloads is next to impossible because most of the torrent getting downloaded belongs to patch,cracks etc. category.

Vertor moved a step ahead to manually check them and upload,they should be appreciated.Every site indexes such torrents that proved to be fake or virus loaded.Little glimpse of comment section in torrent site will help you to judge the authenticity of torrent.To get all clean downloads what site needs is “TIME”.

By: Carbonize

Carbonize — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:29:30 +0000

@Samer – Ok I didn’t check to see if it was public or not. To be honest I can’t remember the last time I downloaded a fake but then I tend to stick with trusted uploaders on Demonoid and Mininova.

The last two private trackers (EliteTorrents and AradiTracker) I was a member of were excellent sites but both got shut down in the end.

By: Samer

Samer — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:06:30 +0000

I think some of you guys miss the point …
The idea is not that this site can guarantee 100% password and malware free torrents, but that it actively STRIVES to achieve this.

This means that while there is ALWAYS a risk involved in downloading torrents, the liklihood of this happening with this site is lower (in terms of sheer numerical probability).

@Carbonize: this is a public site. I have been using it for a while without any registration whatsoever.

By: Carbonize

Carbonize — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:16:14 +0000

In my experience any site that requires membership is usually a way to guarantee that the torrents are clean and what they claim to be. All this site is doing is slapping this on the front page as a ’sales’ gimmick.

Viruses and fake files are mainly found on public sites like PirateBay, Demonoid and Mininova because if you upload fakes to a members only site your account is closed quickly.

By: Spoonman

Spoonman — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:11:21 +0000

@Dibyajyoti Deb: Did you actually have a virus, or did your AV report one? If you’ve downloaded something like a software patcher, a lot of AV will report that it contains a trojan. This is due to the fact that the patchers contain a lot of the same code as trojans because that’s what they do: they patch legitimate software to spread. If what you downloaded contains a crack, and the crack is what’s being reported as a virus it’s a good chance it’s not a virus. What I do is I have a VM setup with just a pristine instance of XP on it. I install the software there and THEN check it for viruses (after cracking, of course).

By: Dibyajyoti Deb

Dibyajyoti Deb — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:19:09 +0000

I downloaded a torrent from this site yesterday, and there was a virus in it. It’s the first time it has happened!.i’ve been downloading from Vertor for quite some time now, but had never met with a malicious torrent

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:42:47 +0000

@rrodh: When you say password protected, do you mean in an encrypted archive (like zip or rar)? I try to avoid downloading zips/rars for that very reason (you can see a file listing before downloading).

By: rrodh

rrodh — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:37:05 +0000

I tried this site a couple of weeks ago. Three out of three torrents I downloaded required a password to open. Needless to say, I deleted the downloads and deleted this site from my bookmarks.

By: Tima

Tima — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:16:14 +0000

All torrent sites of this kind try to be clean and honest at the beggining, it will not take them long to change their good intensions to common state of affairs on this field.

By: nicbot

nicbot — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:54:05 +0000

One thing I’ve notice for a while now is this note on the page:

” We have discovered our anti-virus software was not dependable enough, so we’re changing it to a more reliable one on 30.12.2008. Therefore we can not give you a 100% guarantee that all torrents are virus-free. ”

That has been there for a while now. I still like the idea of this site and have used it…so far so good