How would opening a torrent file cause an infection? It isn’t an executable.
Sounds like those phony MP3 virus rumors that were popular ten years ago.
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That’s my thought. I don’t doubt this fine Freeper really got a malware infection somehow, I just believe they’re mistaken about how it happened. Even if they didn’t do anything stupid or careless, someone else certainly could have on the machine.
Malware Bytes is good stuff, tho...I tend to check things over every day or so with it anyway.