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μTorrent, Now Shipped With a Bitcoin Miner

posted by n1 on Saturday March 07 2015, @08:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the read-the-small-print dept.

Marneus68 writes:

μTorrent (often referred to as uTorrent or MTorrent by people too lazy to look up how to type in a "μ" character) is reportedly silently shipping a bitcoin miner with its default install. While you can opt out during the installation process, the mining software, called "EpicScale", is apparently installed automatically and silently when updating an existing μTorrent install.

It seems that the developers are aware of this, but the only official response that was given by an administrator on the forum is that " it's easy to uninstall the software via Add/Remove Programs".

From the experience of several users, the installation process still leaves .dll's and executables behind once completed.

More detail can be found on this thread on the official forums.

Are any SoylentNews user affected by this? What alternative torrent clients do you use?

[Editor's Note: The official forums are down at time of editing. The topic has also been discussed on Reddit which includes an Imgur link with the forum thread.]

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Valkor on Saturday March 07 2015, @09:38AM

    by Valkor (4253) on Saturday March 07 2015, @09:38AM (#154083)

    http://www.oldversion.com/windows/utorrent/ [oldversion.com]

    I use one of the 1.6 versions. No problems with them at all.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2015, @09:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2015, @09:41AM (#154084)

    I'm sure there's no security issues with 8 year old P2P software...

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Saturday March 07 2015, @02:28PM

    by looorg (578) on Saturday March 07 2015, @02:28PM (#154126)

    You could go a little newer then that, 2.2.1 (released in 2011 compared to 2007 for 1.6.x) seems to have been the last good version before they started to sell out and go down the crapper.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2015, @07:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2015, @07:22AM (#154379)

    a lot of closed binaries provided by various people, many who are probably strangers to each other and probably no checksums from when the file(s) were released?

    informative? i'd rather stick my dick in crazy.