I feel like the answer is yes, but thought I'd come here and ask first. It stops a ton of connections and warns me that it's worried about trojans, riskware and ransomware. I don't really know how any of this works and was concerned that maybe I ought to just let malwarebytes do its thing, but my download speeds are pretty slow (like....sometimes just a few kilobytes in speed).
qbittorrent itself isn't malware so if it's somehow tripping malwarebytes that kind of speaks to its quality. you can add it but i wouldn't be paying money for malwarebytes active protection. the shit you're torrenting you should absolutely keep letting your AV scan, you can pull stuff back out of quarantine if needed but that's a last line of defense if you downloaded something bad. a lot of AV's will flagP2P traffic because torrenting shit is how people download malware.
what you should have if you're pirating shit is at least a VPN. i trust mullvad, some gamers™ don't like it now that it lost port forwarding but given the rationale i'm not sure i entirely trust companies that aren't going to soon follow suit or aren't lying about not logging IP's. more important than speed (and if you're just torrenting right on your desktop computer then it's not going to be that big a deal) is a guarantee you're not going to be snitched out. the speeds with the nicer VPN's is fast enough to max out my gigabyte connection and i'm not currently using a seedbox.
Thanks; I WAS using a VPN (NordVPN) but just discovered that for some bizarre reason it was majorly slowing my internet down to like a fraction of its speed.
As for paying for Malwarebytes, I'm happy to report I was among the early adopters who only had to pay to buy it the one time for lifetime features. I'd still scan my downloaded files (though I only download video files; I haven't gotten executables in many years as I'm way too worried about malware) but adding the qbittorrent executable to malwarebytes exclusion wouldn't stop malwarebytes from keeping an eye on the downloaded files, right?
I would not advise connecting without a VPN, for obvious reasons. The slow down is expected and the magnitude of it will be dependent on the server you're connecting to.
What I'd recommend is configuring the torrent client specifically to use the VPN, assuming it supports it (I personally use transmission inside a docker container so I don't know how you'll want to set it up with qbittottent)
the shit you're torrenting you should absolutely keep letting your AV scan
Depends on what it is. Games are going to falsely trip any AV really often. Videos/audio books and stuff I guess you could scan, but also just don't run any .mp4.exe files. Also windows defender is a solid last line of defense now.
And absolutely, torrents without a VPN are going to you letters/service termination in many countries.
Even for games, you can restore files from quarantine. Games are where someone that isn't tech literate will end up running something that'll fuck up their computer, and if they're unsure whether their torrent client is safe to exclude I'm worried about exempting any torrents. Def agree that Defender is fine these days.
