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Good luck on your quest to educate this OP on this point. The OP does not want to rebuild the house, no matter how perilous a foundation it was built upon.
@OP - anti-virus, anti-rootkit, anti-malware software cannot find every infection; it is just not possible. Once a person has access to an operating system, they can add things that are difficult to detect. You say that the torrent was from a trusted source. Just keep in mind what kind of transactions/info you are trusting that source with - both offline and online.
Of course, we all trust Microsoft