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How to open a torrent file??

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Hey guys so can someone tell me how do i open a torrent file?? if i open it its sowing some sort of codes or links..am i supposed download anything or is there some problem in my laptop..i am asking this here because there a file where it has some resources but i am unable to open..so pls help me!

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Torrent files simply give directories on where the snippets of your files are. Then, a torrent client can use that information to download a file by taking little bits of the file from multiple sources.

Hence, you need a torrent client. I suggest bittorrent. Download the client and try opening the file.

Ohhhh tysm for ur help

Not sure if this is entirely true, but I have heard that bittorrent comes with a hidden spyware called "WebHelper", I used virustotal to check and it confirmed it had some sort of malware.

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are you sure?

Can't say im a 100%, im probably less experienced than you. I recommend doing your own research. I use Qbittorent

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This is true. Doing research on how to open torrents rn and when i googled torrent clients, it was the first one that came up. After I downloaded, my pc downloaded a few other apps including Opera and my computer started automatically opening my settings and setting Opera to the default browser, almost like someone had remote control over it. I had to shut it down and unplug my ethernet cable and then uninstall all the apps it had downloaded. I'd avoid it.

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i might be TOTALLY wrong but i think you can open torrent files via the tor browser….

ohh ill try..thnks

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You need to download some kind of torrent software like BiglyBT. You can then use the app to open the torrent file which will begin a download. However, keep in mind that it is illegal in some countries (like Germany) and is easily traceable if you don’t use VPN so make sure you do your research.