I'm here to tell you, my friends, that that is an outright lie. A find command for the date in question reveals that the Torch installer installs a veritable buttload of junk all over the filesystem. There's stuff in /Library, there's a bunch of things in your home account. Oh, it's a scene, man, a real mess. And, yes, there's even:
/usr/local/libexec/alerterdaemon