Hopefully I can shed some light as to how easy this is to do:
When you rar or zip (put a file into a folder), you can bind that folder with an invisible "keylogger" (a program that send ALL your keystrokes to a website via FTP, you can get one for free go check). Once you type in you banks address, followed by your username and pass, they have it all logged in a text file for their use.
The keylogger program excecutes/ runs when you click on the movie file to play, or sometimes when you even extract the rar/ zip. You would never know.
Virus defense is useless if the person binding the file creates the program themselves, which is not too hard if you just ammend an already existing Keylogger. Someone has to report it before you Virus scanner will pick it up - in most cases thats too late.
My advice, get a mac - at least for now they have far less targeted keyloggers. Or get a cheap second hand laptop for all your banking and email usage. If you must do this with one computer, then join a forum which uses FTP as transfer protocol and make sure you only download from members who have reputation of clean uploads.
Just trying to keep everyone safe here, of course, best is just to leave torrents alone period.
When you rar or zip (put a file into a folder), you can bind that folder with an invisible "keylogger" (a program that send ALL your keystrokes to a website via FTP, you can get one for free go check). Once you type in you banks address, followed by your username and pass, they have it all logged in a text file for their use.
The keylogger program excecutes/ runs when you click on the movie file to play, or sometimes when you even extract the rar/ zip. You would never know.
Virus defense is useless if the person binding the file creates the program themselves, which is not too hard if you just ammend an already existing Keylogger. Someone has to report it before you Virus scanner will pick it up - in most cases thats too late.
My advice, get a mac - at least for now they have far less targeted keyloggers. Or get a cheap second hand laptop for all your banking and email usage. If you must do this with one computer, then join a forum which uses FTP as transfer protocol and make sure you only download from members who have reputation of clean uploads.
Just trying to keep everyone safe here, of course, best is just to leave torrents alone period.