Seriously, every torrent client I find (half a dozen? more?) either the browser stops me after/during download (“danger danger!”) and the .exe becomes unusable, or my or Windows built-in virus detection quarantines it almost immediately. Even an open source one I tried (downloaded; I didn’t build the source tree). Looking for a safe client, for Windows, please.
Are you sure you do not have, or are trying to download, a virus? 
Check that first
Then you can use an open-source download client like qbittorrent
Go with any recommended by a legit tech site:
If your antivirus claims that they have viruses, your antivirus is lying.
Chrome saying a virus was detected doesn’t mean one is actually present. Google may just have declared bit torrent clients are “unsafed” and their algorithm flags them all as viruses. I think there’s open source bit torrent clients out there, I’d download one of those (from a trusted site.)
I was wondering the same. Windows itself tries to quarantine every bitTorrent client. Makes me suspicious that every client gets this treatment
It’s been a long time since I used it but this is the one I have:
If you’re downloading qbittorrent from qBittorrent Official Website I think it is safe and has no viruses. This is a well known, open source project and that is their official home page. I downloaded it and see no signs of it containing malicious software.
My browser says so also
I did download from there and it gets rejected.
Alternately, you could use one of the “middlemen” services:
https://alternativeto.net/software/sonic-seedbox/
I use seedr (2 GB in free account) and Sonicbit (4 GB in free account.) If you are willing to pay you get much larger file size limits. Then let them download the torrent and direct-download from them. (Sonicbit seems to re-download every torrent, seedr obviously downloads just once and if you add one they have already downloaded they will copy it to your directory instantly.) Downloads are very fast.
Okay, let’s rephrase the OP then. Is there a way to permit torrent clients without disabling your virus detection? So far Windows itself (sometimes, not always) quarantines them. With BitTorrent it bitches sometimes but doesn’t go nuclear.
And WTF is with this weirdly aggressive anti-virus, anti-browser, and OS behavior with torrent clients if it’s not a legit threat (and it doesn’t seem to be often).
Without being on your PC I can’t say for sure, but in my experience both the browser based and Windows based “rejections” can be overridden by the operator. The buttons or links you have to click to bypass them are sometimes obscure and not readily apparent.
To get BitTorrent to work, I had to download from Firefox and just ignore Windows antivirus bitching (seriously, every the time BT runs)
That file seems to have been flagged by “SecureAge APEX”, so totally ignore that false warning and download the file. Checksums are here.
I think Opera browser has (or used to have?) a torrent client built in.
I set Chrome’s Security > Safe Browsing to Standard and was able to download the 64-bit installer from the mirror on this page:
I did not receive any sort of virus warning. I even started the installer, though I didn’t finish it as I already use a different BitTorrent client. (I don’t like the qBittorrent UI.)
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It does, very occasionally, show you a reminder that you can donate. But it’s very rare, and never shows up when you’re just downloading things in the background.
I also use Tixati, no issues installing through chrome on my end.
I just downloaded Tixati from Chrome and it let me finish! Yay, I’m saved!
Then I installed it, ran it, and Windows Security (not an optional component like my virus addon I’d disabled) popped up an alert “potentially unwanted app found” and moved it god know where on my drive. The installed app folder is still there in Program Files with a license.txt and and error reporting exe, but the app exe itself is gone.
Did it all a second time, the app.exe came back. I made it read only, then got this when I launched:
And then the app disappeared again. Win 10 build 19041.1052. "Windows Feature Experience Pack (whatever that is) 120.221.2020.0
I use Deluge. No problems on Win10 and downloaded it via Firefox.