Originally Posted by roget
Thats actually not what that report was saying. It was nothing to do with the torrents you could download (note the "Without consent" part. If you download a torrent, thats deliberate and you are consenting to have that on your hard drive). It was to do with a combination of the banner ads and the common image hosts used on empornium. I visit empornium occasionally, and sometimes the ads they have in their rotation will try to install bad shit without telling you. A decent adblocker in your browser stops most of it though.