Using current versions of uTorrent has meant bloatware, ads and unwanted additional software. Now their latest versions are installing Epic Scale, a cryprocurrency mining tool that runs in the background, slows your machine and generates revenue for....Epic Scale. Worse, while uTorrent admits they have added this, they insist it's revealed in the install/update and you get the opportunity to opt out... except that's not true and many have been subjected to a silent install.
https://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-quietly-installs-riskware-bitcoin-miner-users-report-150306/
The solution is NOT to use some addon that tries to clean up or block what uTorrent is doing.... the solution is simply uTorrent 2.2.1, the last version that was free of ads and crapware. There is absoluitely NO useful addition or feature to any later version, despite claims by BitTorrent (the makers of uTorrent).
You can find Version 2.2.1 here, just don't allow upgrades after install:
http://www.oldapps.com/utorrent.php?old_utorrent=38
https://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-quietly-installs-riskware-bitcoin-miner-users-report-150306/
The solution is NOT to use some addon that tries to clean up or block what uTorrent is doing.... the solution is simply uTorrent 2.2.1, the last version that was free of ads and crapware. There is absoluitely NO useful addition or feature to any later version, despite claims by BitTorrent (the makers of uTorrent).
You can find Version 2.2.1 here, just don't allow upgrades after install:
http://www.oldapps.com/utorrent.php?old_utorrent=38
