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Originally Posted by Crispy's Critter
yea, probably just my fears stemming from '80's hacker movies coming to the forefront 
Same reason I don't go swimming in fear of rubbery looking mechanical sharks  |
Keyloggers are common, often they are disguised as other files you download and with the popularity of torrents, they are often hidden in the torrents or made as fake torrents. Luckily those get spotted and filtered out by the nature of people sharing everything pretty quickly but sometimes they remain. If you run the program by accident, it sets up a keylogger on your computer and tries to find or open ports whereby it can establish an IRC connection to send out the log of all your keystrokes to steal account numbers, passwords, etc.