Solve : how safe is demonoid.com??

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Answer» Not really sure where I should post this, but here seemed like the right place: I was recently blessed with an invite to demonoid.com, but upon downloading a season of Frasier, I started to wonder how safe demonoid truly is. I would think that .avi files would be generally safe from malicious CONTENT, but then again, I guess that nothing truly is safe. So what's your take on the safety of demonoid (or even other bittorents, while we're on the topic)?none are completely safe just scan your computer often and scan any files before OPENING them or don't dl torrentsAlthough Demonoid appears to be one of the safer sites of this nature, I'd still be hard-pressed to actually call it safe. It's about as safe as picking up hitchhikers...some of them are nice and friendly, and some of them have knives. And you usually can't tell which is which until it's too late.50/50 you might get knifed you might not Always ware a condom (firewall, agv, search and destroy) while downloading torrents.... thanks for the input Quote from: keybowvio on September 16, 2007, 09:54:25 PM ... I would think that .avi files ... Does anyone know - is it even possible for .avi files to be infected with anything? By default Windows hides extensions of known file types so a nice.avi could easily turn out to be a nasty.avi.exe.just another reason why you should never allow windows to hide file extensions, at all!I've used demonoid.com for almost 2 years now and never encountered any problems. Of course there will be the odd occaision where something bad is there, but all in all it is pretty well maintained on that RESPECT. The community there are, for the most part, pretty decent folk who will inform the moderators or people of authority to have anything malicious removed. Quote from: Fed on September 17, 2007, 07:19:15 PM By default Windows hides extensions of known file types so a nice.avi could easily turn out to be a nasty.avi.exe. While you have an interesting and valid point, I'm still curious to know if it is even possible to INFECT an .avi file. Anyone...?Yes, .avi files technically can in fact be infected. Actually, just about any file can be infected. However, the DEP pretty much prevents such infections from spreading through your system. Anything is possible, of course, but you mostly need to worry about executable files.You can't infect an avi by any of the usual means since an avi file isn't executed, but read by another program. In order to do something malicious with an avi file an attacker would need to 1.) Find a media player or codec (or most likely a combination of the two) with a huge flaw in its file parsing component. 2.) Craft a special avi file to exploit this. I don't think this scenario is particular realistic though, since a humongous flaw like that wouldn't go unnoticed for long in any major media player/codec. Quote from: Deerpark on September 18, 2007, 09:20:38 AM You can't infect an avi by any of the usual means since an avi file isn't executed, ... Which agrees with things I learned a long time ago. Since I know I'm not current on things, just wanted to CHECK and see if my ideas were still correct.

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Not really sure where I should post this, but here seemed like the right place:

I was recently blessed with an invite to demonoid.com, but upon downloading a season of Frasier, I started to wonder how safe demonoid truly is. I would think that .avi files would be generally safe from malicious CONTENT, but then again, I guess that nothing truly is safe.

So what's your take on the safety of demonoid (or even other bittorents, while we're on the topic)?none are completely safe just scan your computer often and scan any files before OPENING them or don't dl torrentsAlthough Demonoid appears to be one of the safer sites of this nature, I'd still be hard-pressed to actually call it safe. It's about as safe as picking up hitchhikers...some of them are nice and friendly, and some of them have knives. And you usually can't tell which is which until it's too late.50/50 you might get knifed you might not

Always ware a condom (firewall, agv, search and destroy) while downloading torrents.... thanks for the input Quote from: keybowvio on September 16, 2007, 09:54:25 PM

... I would think that .avi files ...

Does anyone know - is it even possible for .avi files to be infected with anything?

By default Windows hides extensions of known file types so a nice.avi could easily turn out to be a nasty.avi.exe.just another reason why you should never allow windows to hide file extensions, at all!I've used demonoid.com for almost 2 years now and never encountered any problems. Of course there will be the odd occaision where something bad is there, but all in all it is pretty well maintained on that RESPECT. The community there are, for the most part, pretty decent folk who will inform the moderators or people of authority to have anything malicious removed.

Quote from: Fed on September 17, 2007, 07:19:15 PM

By default Windows hides extensions of known file types so a nice.avi could easily turn out to be a nasty.avi.exe.

While you have an interesting and valid point, I'm still curious to know if it is even possible to INFECT an .avi file.

Anyone...?Yes, .avi files technically can in fact be infected. Actually, just about any file can be infected. However, the DEP pretty much prevents such infections from spreading through your system. Anything is possible, of course, but you mostly need to worry about executable files.You can't infect an avi by any of the usual means since an avi file isn't executed, but read by another program.
In order to do something malicious with an avi file an attacker would need to
1.) Find a media player or codec (or most likely a combination of the two) with a huge flaw in its file parsing component.
2.) Craft a special avi file to exploit this.

I don't think this scenario is particular realistic though, since a humongous flaw like that wouldn't go unnoticed for long in any major media player/codec. Quote from: Deerpark on September 18, 2007, 09:20:38 AM

You can't infect an avi by any of the usual means since an avi file isn't executed, ...

Which agrees with things I learned a long time ago. Since I know I'm not current on things, just wanted to CHECK and see if my ideas were still correct.

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