Symantec Patent Lets Torrent Users Know Whether to Trust a File or Not

Symantec Corporation has managed to secure a new patent that will help torrent fans figure out if they're about to download a safe file or not. 

While the music and the movie industries hate torrents with everything they are and have been filing lawsuits left and right trying to ban sites that allow people to access pirated content, the truth of the matter is that such content will never go away and torrent sites are here to stay. Once a site goes down, another pops up in its stead. 

Symantec seems to have recognized this and has secured a patent that will inform those who download torrents whether the file is fake, or whether there's a malware hidden in there, or any other scammy content for that matter, TorrentFreak reports. 

The patent talks about a system that can be used to identify fake torrents and malware-infected files, w...