TalkTalk HomeSafe Claims All Bittorrent Sites Will Give Users Malware if Visited
It has been reported over at TorrentFreak that TalkTalk HomeSafe is now blocking bittorrent sites. It seems like TalkTalk HomeSafe labels all bittorrent sites with a “Virus Alert” message when trynig to view that site. This statement just simply isnt correct as it states that all bittorrent sites (isohunt.com, thepiratebay.org, etc) have malware on the site that will infect any computer that accesses the sites.
It seems like TalkTalk have been told to put a ban on the sites, but didnt really know how they could ban the sites legally. You might be losing a lot of customers after this TalkTalk!
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Hmmm this is not quite true!
HomeSafe has an anti-malware part which is not blocking torrent freak
If you enable the parental control part of HomeSafe AND choose the ‘file sharing’ category then any website that hosts files or promotes software to share files is blocked with a parental control message.
You can choose to enable the parental controls feature…. And change the categories at any time.
Matt