The growing availability and popularity of video on the Internet is a good thing, and people are having fun with it. Unfortunately, like all popular Internet fads there is also a down side. Sopcast, though used by a lot of people, has tended to be a part of that down side. Sopcast is a live television channel and peer-to-peer, or PTP, video sharing program that, on the surface, looks like a lot of fun. The problem is, however, that there doesnt seem to be much in place with the program that helps to guard against nasty viruses. Like a lot of other PTP programs, users are taking a big risk every time they use the file sharing feature. Even getting foreign television stations from this kind of program can be risky.

Though a lot of the time your anti-virus program will catch something before it can wreak havoc with your computer, theres always that chance that something is going to sneak past and give you a lot of trouble. When you are using a program like Sopcast, where you are constantly exposed to files that come with no guarantee of being virus-free, you are vastly increasing the odds of a nasty virus getting past your computers defenses. No matter how careful you think you are being you simply cant ensure that the sources of your file downloads at Sopcast are completely trustworthy. Granted, many people have used the program and not had any problems, but it only takes one particularly nasty virus to get through in order to render your computer so damaged that you need professional help to get it going again.

There are better choices for watching streaming video on your computer. It is always better to use legal software; when its legal it tends to come with more guarantees. Satellite TV for PC is a software program that, once installed, allows you to watch such things as television programs, sports and movies from all over the world. Though its not free like some of the less-than-legal PTP and video stream programs, you only need make a low one-time payment and you have access to as many as 3000 satellite channels. You dont need a satellite, however; the video will stream right through to your computer through your broadband Internet connection.