I mostly use websites for this or my computer with jdownloader.

Yea yea, but in the wild then

This is the first time I see the word halcyon being used irl

What

It works fine using qbittorrent, at least, for me.

I have made a bot that gathers accounts on the internet. You can pm if you are interested

Usenet can be as free as torrents though

I use both. It depends on what I need, really.

But there used to be like chatrooms

We have a torrent client set up on our nas. We use truenas.

I used to use Tungle

To be honest, common sense is the best form of security. If you don’t trust something, either run it in a VM, or don’t run it at all.

To answer your question, Microsoft defender should be plenty.