by raycast » Sat May 03, 2008 12:40 pm
There has not been a virus so far that affects MP3 files. I guess all the widely used decoders handle broken data well enough to not have any buffer overflow vulnerabilities there.
In general, torrents are not more or less likely to contain viruses than any other data you grab from any file sharing site, including rapidshare, megaupload and such.
So you mostly need to be very careful when downloading applications from there, especially cracked copies of software can easily be infected with malware. Music, Video and Image data barely ever is.
And make sure you have a good virus scanner or use an operating system (e.g. Linux, *BSD) that is not very vulnerable by design.