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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) by TLA on Sunday March 08 2015, @09:07AM
we're on 3.4.2 now, everything seems to be behaving. I've not had any issues with unwanted BHOs or Litecoin miners or any of that junk, but there again I'm paranoid to begin with (helps having a background in MI and later CI), knowing what vectors are available to snoopers is a good start to mitigating them.
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