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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2015, @02:28AM
RTorrent [wikipedia.org]. Simple ncurses UI runs nicely in a terminal (inside screen/tmux so it keeps running in the background and you can monitor it over SSH). The key commands take a bit to learn, but they're all on the man page if you forget. There's easy settings to make it watch a directory for new/deleted .torrent files for easily starting/stopping downloads without even interacting with the UI. It also supports an HTTP interface if you want a GUI, although I've never used it.