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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.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2015, @06:39PM
I use qbittorrent too.
It even has a sort of "anonymous mode" [github.com] where it tries hard to make itself less "visible" - like minimizing DHT, only accepts incoming connections via socks5 or i2p proxy, and zeroes out the Peer-ID which is otherwise be a unique client identifier that could track you across proxies (or if you forgot to proxy). I just wish the Peer-ID thing was available outside of anonymous mode so I could use it with a VPN instead of a proxy.