The original post: /r/torrents by /u/LautanL on 2024-10-13 21:41:56.

I use GlassWire to regularly monitor my own network. Just now, I received a report saying there was a suspicious host connection. The application is qbittorrent and it’s connected to 736d0mvetjw.life.

Now, I’m currently away, so I don’t seed any of them and keep all torrents paused. I also haven’t used it for around a month by now. Not only that, I don’t use it to torrent stuffs like applications and such, so I have never run any executables or anything like that from torrents. Latest torrent is from nyaa. For all that matters, I have been busy, I was even thinking to quit this whole thing for good. So this came as a surprise to me.

Better be safe than sorry, I immediately cut connection and looked for information. I wasn’t able to find out much except that it’s related to a botnet. That was surprising since I have never run anything suspicious as far as I can remember. I also haven’t found anything else. No suspicious application, nothing. AV scan also hasn’t found anything. I’m using paid Bitdefender if it matters. I have yet to do a full scan though, since it’s early morning over here, I have a lot of stuffs in my laptop, and I need to get ready.

I wonder what should I do. I want to go full panic mode and take the safest approach if possible, but I can’t due to current circumstances. Am I actually overreacting?

I posted this before on techsupport subreddit but apparently it doesn’t allow piracy-related issue. If there’s a better place to ask this, please do tell me. Any help is appreciated.