Hello,
So is this really safe for downloading and watching stuff? It still is a torrent downloader so you dont really know what are you truly downloading.
It’s safe
all, what you download from torrents - it’s video files, video files not contain executable code and can not contain virus and other danger things.
the maximum you can see is embedded ads, but this is quite rare and depends on pirates
No.
A Trojan was found in VirusTotal: W32.AIDetectMalware
I should point out that video files can contain malware, but it is somewhat rare.
https://www.opswat.com/blog/can-video-file-contain-virus
This would be a risk when downloading video/media from anywhere and is not specific to PopcornTime.
As far as I can tell, the torrents PopcornTime shows are selected based on quality and such.
In terms of whether the app itself is safe; The project is open-source and the code can be found here:
Another thing to note is that you might get “malicious IP blocked” notices every so often depending on your antivirus/anti-malware you have installed. This is not-specific to PopcornTime and is just a nature of how torrents work; Some seeders might be using flagged IP’s for any number of reasons.
swf and quick time
and one fixed bug in vlc
distributed by the method “wow, wow, let me see”