BSOD while downloading torrents (uTorrent, vixati) Stop 0x000000C2

panais · 16 Oct 2011

You have the crashes only when using uTorrent?

Dont use uTorrent for testing purposes.

Work,play as usual and wait for results.

Layback Bear · 16 Oct 2011

Using a torrent of any kind is not safe IMHO. When you use one soon or later your computer is going to get hit with a bad thing. You bypass you security because you gave it permission to download from computers all over the world. A bad thing can hook itself on drivers.

panais · 16 Oct 2011

Layback Bear said:

Using a torrent of any kind is not safe IMHO. When you use one soon or later your computer is going to get hit with a bad thing. You bypass you security because you gave it permission to download from computers all over the world. A bad thing can hook itself on drivers.

Depends how you use it and for what.

You can also have control in everything if you know exact what you doing.

Though for now we like to know what really cause the crash.

Corazon · 16 Oct 2011

Usually, it's because torrent clients open a lot of TCP connections which stresses some network drivers to the point of crashing them. One way of preventing them is to limit the total number of connections allowed in the torrent client to something like 150-200, no more.

And IMHO, uTorrent etc. is perfectly safe to use. The risk is simply in what you download, which applies to anything. I don't believe that connecting to random people all over the world is really that risky - you can use protocol encryption and even IP filters - it just means getting a download from multiple sources instead of one. Most of those random people are just torrent users like you.

Layback Bear · 16 Oct 2011

Well it is easy to see that their are many opinions on torrents. You know mine. I like to play it safe. Protecting my computer from one source or a thousand sources. I pick one source. Just Google, torrents security problems you will see over 51 million sites to check it out yourself. I know of nothing you will need a torrent to download anything. You can go to the official web site and get everything they have to offer not using a torrent.