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Oops meant to say long time. But either way, I am not using a download manager? I have never gotten a virus, I don't know how people even get that. I do use private trackers, and that's the positive side of torrent. Since you use private tracker it going to be more safer than your public tracker. That's how I have been able to keep virus-free till now.

That download Manager part is for @Vuluts since he mentioned it's a better choice. There are those who upload software into torrents with trojon horses etc. People get infected when they download these without reading comments and also when they dont have a uptodate virus guards. It's not Bittorrent systems fault. Just some people are too silly to even follow basic guide lines of using Internet.