On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:46:02 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:

You will get a torrent file, but I know that some of the domains used
are just a copy of pirate bay which will open a new tab/window with spam
when you click on some of the links

I have never seen that.

Of course, I use ghostery, noscript, https everywhere, canvass blocker,
random agent spoofer, adblock plus, etc.

But, I wasn't worried about spam.

I mainly am asking that, since piratebay already is a semi-not-normal
site, being told that the certificate is from cloudfare doesn't mean
anything to me. I wasn't expecting the pirate bay to be run by LE
or anything and to be squeaky clean in the first place.

I just wanted to know how to INTERPRET the message.

It's odd that, without Avast, Firefox doesn't seem to have any problems.
So, is Avast just making this stuff up?

What you get with the torrent is a different thing, this can include
malware/viruses/spyware regardless if you download the torrentfile from
the pirate bay or a copy of it.

Again, that's a different topic that the antivirus should take care
of once the file is on the machine. What is *inside* the file that
the torrent points to can be *anything* (I realize that). In this
case, it's just a book - but it can still *hide* a virus.

That was never the question though. The question was just how to
interpret the message (because another one will pop up tomorrow).