Is utorrent a virus risk to the computer?

My PC had a virus and the woman at the repair shop told me it was because of utorrent. I just want to know if she's right or wrong. I paid loads to get the PC repaired.

A clear explanation would be appreciated.

Is utorrent a virus risk to the computer?firewall

Torrents is a way to file share from peer to peer (P2P) unfortunately you don't know what is on the peer system with regards viruses etc, until your anti virus goes mad detecting them as you download, or sometimes does not detect them at all, until the next time you boot the machine and they execute themselves (exe files) and virus makers nearly always execute them to run in your system32 folder, so are much harder to get rid of (they know this) because system32 is running in the background, and therefore the virus software cannot kill the process it is trying to quarantine/delete, access to that file is nearly always denied, that's why safe mode is used to get rid of them, also some viruses have the capability to duplicate themselves every time you boot the machine, so really you should use file sharing with caution, and scan your system at regular intervals.

Is utorrent a virus risk to the computer?husqvarna

Ivan R, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how bittorrent works. While some other peer to peer file sharing networks cache unrelated data on your machine, bittorrent does not. The only warez, porn, pirated mp3's, trojans, malware and viruses you will get on your computer from bittorrent are in files you _chose_ to download.