Treat others with the respect and honesty you’d prefer they treat you with. If you need/want a program, do the research, vet software using its trial capabilities, and buy the best one out there for your task from its author. Are you HOPING for an infection, identity theft, or to have your bank account drained? Do you think that doing immoral and wrong things is helping you or anyone? And of course the software itself could be mining your personal data (don’t begin to think all the security holes that could be taken advantage of by executable software are now patched). I can’t think of anything that represents as big a loss of control and risk than having some promiscuous application blithely copying data to and from your computer with random other users’ computers out there on the wild Internet.
Who would begin to imagine that running such software could EVER be a remotely safe or reasonable thing to do in today’s computing security environment? Not to mention the questionable legality and morality of downloading and sharing other people’s property. The subject of this thread is good, except I might expand it to: Stop using file sharing software!
