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unfortunately this is pretty niche software so it's hard to tell either way. A number of his other uploads have comments however.
What about downloading the torrent and testing it using a clean throwaway Windows install on a separate drive? And afterwards running a few different virus scans and check the task scheduler etc to see if there are any suspicious changes. Does this sound like a good strategy? Is there anything I should look out for in particular?
Not really, I mean, let me explain to you my process to see if that helps
First of all I have 3 backups... 1 in cloud, 1 in secondary ssd, 1 in external ssd. When I download something from a source that I'm not sure about specifically in 1337x I:
I'm not sure and someone can correct me please if I'm wrong, but if the drive is installed in the same computer it doesn't make a big difference. VM is always better imo.
unless your disconnecting your main drive vm is better yes still not full proof but better