The original post: /r/torrents by /u/shervek on 2025-02-14 02:50:18.

So, I've never seen this before. I downloaded an episode of an old tv show using a torrent. Then I cut and pasted the downloaded file on a USB flash drive.

The torrent continued to seed from one IP only, and at full speed. Not only the upload speed was not decreasing, it was increasing! I double checked that the file is no longer on my hard drive, where I originally downloaded it. It wasn't there.

I'm wondering if I'm dealing with a virus? After a couple of minutes of wondering what is happening I deleted the seeding torrent from qBittorrent .