Anti-Virus Vendors are Back to Flagging Torrent Clients as Dangerous ByBill Toulas-December 7, 2019 “3/3/1942.jpg” Multiple AV tools are now flagging torrent clients as a threat to adware risk and generally warning users. The developers of torrent software follow an aggressive approach to advertising which does not play well with anyone. Whatever the case, most users are fed up by this so they use either other devices or modded versions. As reported by TorrentFreakflagging as a threat to torrent clients like BitTorrent and uTorrent. The issue affects both desktop clients and their counterparts in the web-interface, and the reason, according to AV vendors, is the advertisements being pushed through these tools and not the tools itself. Such vendors are Antiy-AVL Comodo Cylance DrWeb ESET-NOD32 GData Microsoft Sangfor Engine Zero and Sophos AV. Given the growing trend, it is very likely that there will soon be more vendors joining, flagging uTorrent and BitTorrent. Torrent customers and torrent files are completely legal but they have taken on a bad reputation because they are used widely to distribute pirated content. It’s not the tools that are illegally used but often the ways we use them. Users may feel that what they are doing is dangerous or risky with this flagging from AV tools so it adds further to the unjust reputation. If you are searching for a torrent client that is free of safe-to-use and open-source ads, you can provide qBittorrentDelugeTransmission that is relatively easy to use cross-platform and has a modern user interface. No matter what you do, don’t forget that uploading torrent files still runs a risk of getting your device infected with malware. That said you should still search your files before unpacking them or running them.