vertor

There are lots of potential threats distributed through bittorrent networks and since filesharing became extremely popular one needs to be protected from these threats. The new site VerTor (http://vertor.com), which is short for Verified Torrents, offers a service that provides users with torrent files that made it through an anti-virus scan and some more tests. Every torrent file is downloaded and checked for viruses and passworded archives. The system also extracts small samples of audio files so that users can be sure they download the right stuff. For the torrent that contains several audio files there are 4 randomly chosen files that are processed and for each a 20-second sample is made. For videos the engine makes screenshots and puts them with the file. This way vesitors can see the quality of the video and make sure the content matches the title. If the video is encrypted or passworded then screenshots will be blank. Such torrents are moderated so it is hard to bump into those. Text information and archive filelists are also extracted and shown. Usually .nfo files are attached to the content with its description and it is quite handy to be able to read this description right from the site. If a user has downloaded a torrent from a different site and wants to check if it is good enough, he can enter the hash of the torrent on a special page. If the torrent was checked by Vertor.com it will tell you whether it is a good one or not and provide you with the information they have available. For now the site has a little over 140,000 torrents and there are several thousands verified a day. If the torrent hasn't been checked then users can upload it and it would be downloaded and verified by the system. The upload feature is now limited to 2 GB files. One nice feature that can be very useful for newbies is the option of downloading from the web. It launches the BitLet online torrent client and users don't have to download torrent files and load them into various torrent clients on their computers. Last thing worth mentioning is that the site is completely ad-free. It is planned to be so as long as possible. The overall concept that is implemented by VerTor is unique and has great potential! It contains torrents that are scanned for viruses, checked for protection and text/audio/graphic information is extracted. It is user-friendly as well. Visit Vertor.com and try out this great service!