I use torrents, they're pretty safe and virus free about 95% of the time. It's safe because when you download a torrent you pretty much download the exact same file as everybody else that's seeding/leeching, people can't modify the files with a virus or anything. With torrents you can pretty much get anything from music to video games, all you have to do i find the .torrent file you want and open it with a torrent program, I personally prefer Utorrent. There might be some port forwarding you need to do to be able to download at full speed, but it's a pretty easy thing to do (if you have dial up you don't have to forward any ports). As you might know, using p2p programs comes the risk of violating copyright laws
. So make sure you use a program to block out IP's that monitor p2p traffic
, I'd recommend PeerGuardian.
Here's what you need:
Utorrent
PeerGuardian2
And that's pretty much all you need program-wise. After you've installed Utorrent and PeerGuardian you can start searching for torrents.
Here's some good sites for torrents:
www.isohunt.com
www.piratebay.org
www.torrentbox.com
And here's a torrent search engine that searches a bunch of sites for you:
www.torrentz.com
After you've downloaded the torrent file (should be very small, usually less than 1mb), open it with Utorrent, tell it where you want to save it, and wait for it to finish downloading.
The hardest part of all this is probably forwarding ports, but there's a good website that teaches you how:
www.portforward.com.
If you have trouble setting things up, let me know.
