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μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software - Misha- - 03-07-2015
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If you have recently installed or updated the popular BitTorrent client μTorrent 3.4.2 Build 28913 on your computer, then you read this warning post right now.
Users of the μTorrent file-sharing service are complaining that the latest update of software used for torrent downloading is silently installing a piece of unwanted software called EpicScale, which is basically a Bitcoin mining software.
The Epic Scale, installed without the consent of users, is a cryptocurrency mining software that reportedly uses the combined computing power of users to generate Bitcoin income for BitTorrent company. The unwanted software slows down the host computers and is particularly harder to remove from the system.
The Bitcoin mining software was recently highlighted at uTorrent’s complaint forum where a member ‘Groundrunner’ says: "There was no information about this during installation and I did opt out of your other bundled software."
A senior manager for customer support at uTorrent did reply to the thread, explaining that the designed the update to ensure partner software downloads ‘don’t occur without approval by the user’.
"Epic Scale is a great partner for us to continue to generate revenue for the company, while contributing funds to good causes," uTorrent employee wrote. "Feel free to delete this folder. You certainly won’t see any persistent auto-reinstalls of the software, it will be gone from your machine for good."Source: http://thehackernews.com/2015/03/beware-torrent-silently-installing.html
I had that particular version.
Uninstalled and moved to qBittorrent.
Your thoughts on this?
RE: μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software - Eclipse - 03-07-2015
This is retarded. It gives you the option to install it in the installer. This only fooled those retards that keep clicking next without reading anything.
RE: μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software - whatever - 03-07-2015
(03-07-2015, 04:29 PM)Eclipse Wrote: This is retarded. It gives you the option to install it in the installer. This only fooled those retards that keep clicking next without reading anything.
Did you read the article? A user complaint stated he chose to opt out of bundled software and still ended up with the miner on his computer. You could also be referring to an earlier version, as the artice implies it's only present in 3.4.2 build 28913.
RE: μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software - Master - 03-07-2015
Thanks for posting this, solved why my PC slowed down.
RE: μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software - roger_smith - 03-07-2015
so I just downloaded and installed that exact version/build and no epicscale bs was installed. Also, it's build 38913, not 28913. The 28913 was a typo.
I will monitor the system in case it comes up later, but so far none of the files exist that people are reporting for epic scale. I was careful to not allow crap to install along the install process (you know, not clicking "next next next next" without reading)
RE: μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software - Eclipse - 03-07-2015
(03-07-2015, 07:15 PM)roger_smith Wrote: I was careful to not allow crap to install along the install process (you know, not clicking "next next next next" without reading)
This.
RE: μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software - roger_smith - 03-07-2015
(03-07-2015, 07:19 PM)Eclipse Wrote: This.
That being said, I was also never offered epic scale as something to install so it's a little odd.
RE: μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software - Eclipse - 03-07-2015
(03-07-2015, 07:25 PM)roger_smith Wrote: That being said, I was also never offered epic scale as something to install so it's a little odd.
I believe the offers are randomly selected.
RE: μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software - Misha- - 03-07-2015
(03-07-2015, 07:15 PM)roger_smith Wrote: so I just downloaded and installed that exact version/build and no epicscale bs was installed. Also, it's build 38913, not 28913. The 28913 was a typo.
I will monitor the system in case it comes up later, but so far none of the files exist that people are reporting for epic scale. I was careful to not allow crap to install along the install process (you know, not clicking "next next next next" without reading)
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The silent install appears to happen selectively, and not on all machines.RE: μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software - Eclipse - 03-07-2015
(03-07-2015, 08:13 PM)Misha- Wrote:Code:The silent install appears to happen selectively, and not on all machines.
Silent install my ass. More likely to be user retardedness. I'll be keeping my eyes open.