Never used them much but just started a large file (new Ubuntu image). It downloaded five times as fast as normal download server so quite worthwhile and as far as I can tell from googling, it is a trustworthy torrent client, utorrent.

I have set up a separate windows partition for this on which I shall browse a little, download torrents when required and nothing else, thus I don't think I have to worry about hacking and all those things, except to use standard MSE anti-virus and firewall of course. I assume no keyloggers or whatever that may get through can read other partitions on the hard drive where there is other OS and data; is that a safe assumption?

I am not too worried about needing anonymous usage yet as I intend to download only 'legal' torrents such as this .iso of Ubuntu. My download costs (stuck with slow wireless BB) are too high to make much of anything else worthwhile anyway, cheaper to buy!

I noticed after the download, it started 'seeding'. I assume this is when my part of the bargain, uploading, happens? I shall alllow this, a few megabytes anyway as is only fair.

Any thoughts, warnings etc from experienced torrent users?