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uTorrent re-released as BitTorrent 6.0
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 29 July, 2007
Last year, BitTorrent Inc. purchased the very popular torrent client uTorrent scaring users that felt the client would soon become obsolete or even worse, embedded with tracking devices by the MPAA and other groups. Some private torrent trackers have even banned later versions of uTorrent since the acquisition.
Yesterday, BT Inc. released BitTorrent 6.0, which is a rebranded uTorrent. ... [ read the full article ]
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PCB4
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14. January 2008 @ 21:44 |
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I'm a little late in this thread. I installed CA anti-spyware on my PC tonight and it identified Utorrent as a trojan. This version 1.75 is capable of sending packets of information from my computer without my knowledge. I have version 1.61 on my other computer and it's fine. This from the CA website
Description
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Downloader: A program that downloads and may execute or install software without user permission.
Trojan: Any program with a hidden intent. Trojans are one of the leading causes of breaking into machines. If you pull down a program from a chat room, new group, or even from unsolicited e-mail, then the program is likely trojaned with some subversive purpose. The word Trojan can be used as a verb: To trojan a program is to add subversive functionality to an existing program. For example, a trojaned login program might be programmed to accept a certain password for any user's account that the hacker can use to log back into the system at any time. Rootkits often contain a suite of such trojaned programs.
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utorrent.com
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date of origin: July, 2007
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15. January 2008 @ 05:28 |
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Originally posted by Unfocused:
That seems to be the safe bet with these things. Find a version that works, and stick to it.
I would not say that, the updates to Utorrent were great but since they have been bought out and no longer a group of people making the best program they can the program has died for me and the died at under version 1.7.
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irebel
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25. June 2008 @ 00:19 |
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I to just now installed CA Yahoo Anti Spyware and upon running the program it labelled UTORRENT 1.7.7 as a TROJEN. I currently also have BITCOMET, AZUREUS and BITTORRENT 6.0.3. installed on my computer but they weren't labelled in the CA Anti Spyware. I use to use UTORRENT 1.6 and want to re-install it because it was fast and one can properly tweak it for personnel touch, it also ran good with Windows XP with the updated service pack 3.
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25. June 2008 @ 00:26 |
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Originally posted by irebel:
I to just now installed CA Yahoo Anti Spyware and upon running the program it labelled UTORRENT 1.7.7 as a TROJEN. I currently also have BITCOMET, AZUREUS and BITTORRENT 6.0.3. installed on my computer but they weren't labelled in the CA Anti Spyware. I use to use UTORRENT 1.6 and want to re-install it because it was fast and one can properly tweak it for personnel touch, it also ran good with Windows XP with the updated service pack 3.
it dose not take much for a false positive I ran UT 1.7.7 with kaspersky and checked it http://virusscan.jotti.org/ was probably infected from where you downloaded it
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irebel
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25. June 2008 @ 02:15 |
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Ok, and so did several million other people! download (CA YAHOO ANTI SPYWARE), its free, run it, see what happens and then post another comment. If its all good then maybe post the link for others to use.
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25. June 2008 @ 02:50 |
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Originally posted by irebel:
Ok, and so did several million other people! download (CA YAHOO ANTI SPYWARE), its free, run it, see what happens and then post another comment. If its all good then maybe post the link for others to use.
the malware scanner
http://virusscan.jotti.org/
will run it through all the main av apps out there to see if its infected.
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grinnz
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25. June 2008 @ 15:10 |
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I, too, am coming into this thread more than a bit late. I scanned my uTorrent 1.7.7 at the link provided by Zippy [http://virusscan.jotti.org] and came up clean with every scanner. It looks like I'm still good to go.
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25. June 2008 @ 15:16 |
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Originally posted by grinnz:
I, too, am coming into this thread more than a bit late. I scanned my uTorrent 1.7.7 at the link provided by Zippy [http://virusscan.jotti.org] and came up clean with every scanner. It looks like I'm still good to go.
FYI past 1.6.1 they did tweaking for "bit torrent" so anything about 1.6.1 leaks info to the media mafia or to bit torrent so its loss/loss stick with 1.6.1 until a better light weight BTC comes along.
Speaking of which I hate ABC,Azerous,Bit comment,ect has a beter BTC come along yet?
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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corn
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25. June 2008 @ 15:18 |
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Originally posted by 713tex:
So Bit Torrent is bad? I've been using BT. Why didn't anyone tell me?
Just don't use the bittorrent client, thats all.
I love uTorrent, WTF?
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25. June 2008 @ 15:22 |
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Originally posted by corn:
Originally posted by 713tex:
So Bit Torrent is bad? I've been using BT. Why didn't anyone tell me?
Just don't use the bittorrent client, thats all.
I love uTorrent, WTF?
uTorrent 1.6.1 and under is untouched freeware gold its the best BTC yet everything else fights with my firewall and can never configure in/out bound traffic right.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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irebel
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25. June 2008 @ 15:49 |
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I agree, if you have utorrent 1.6, stick with it. Now would somebody post the link so that I can downloaded it. I had to reload windows and lost it. I just dont want to download from a bad source! I had used it for over a year and tweaked utorrent and my system to be able to download 14 programs in 1:40 mnts with a 2.0 processor and 1gb of ram with no disk overload. Its wonderful to be watching a movie in 15 mnts after starting the download.
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25. June 2008 @ 16:04 |
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Originally posted by irebel:
I agree, if you have utorrent 1.6, stick with it. Now would somebody post the link so that I can downloaded it. I had to reload windows and lost it. I just dont want to download from a bad source! I had used it for over a year and tweaked utorrent and my system to be able to download 14 programs in 1:40 mnts with a 2.0 processor and 1gb of ram with no disk overload. Its wonderful to be watching a movie in 15 mnts after starting the download.
here you go
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=utorrent
1.1.1 though 1.7.1
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Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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corn
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25. June 2008 @ 17:00 |
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I'm using 1.7.7
I haven't had any problems, all my ports are forwarded and I get decent speeds. Still though, MPAA spying on what im uping/dling is bad news.
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25. June 2008 @ 17:08 |
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Originally posted by corn:
I'm using 1.7.7
I haven't had any problems, all my ports are forwarded and I get decent speeds. Still though, MPAA spying on what im uping/dling is bad news.
ya thats why some trackers ban 1.7.+ on sight, altho the spy factor might be over hyped you can't be to careful....
I think it was a bug in 1.7.0 that made it unstable or corrupt data or something then the merger news came in then a land slide of 1.7X descent started up.
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=44112
I wonder if someone has made a lie version of "bit torrent" based off the new utorrent build... :X
mmm wat dis?
http://www.btlite.com/html/about.htm
looks like a spy ware nightmare but could it be a real BT lite version?
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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irebel
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25. June 2008 @ 18:43 |
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Thanks for the link Zippy, I should mention that for the month I have been using bittorrent with no problems for the exception that its pretty slow, you just cant tweak it like you can utorrent 1.6. It is also super slow when on broadband compared to 1.6. utorrent 1.6 ROCKS. Thanks again Zippy!!!
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rvinkebob
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25. June 2008 @ 21:04 |
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Originally posted by hikaricor:
See if yall were running Linux, I'd just recommend KTorrent.
Too clunky and it's made specifically for KDE though I know it'll work on GNOME. I rather use a speedy application that looks like the original BitTorrent in some ways but is very revved up - Transmission ;)
uTorrent was always crap to me. VERY SLOW and the features only made the application worse in my opinion. Azureus was my preference if I wanted a nice GUI combined with a great service and a feature-rich client. It's also the client I use mainly for Windows, and Transmission for Linux.
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corn
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25. June 2008 @ 21:20 |
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I just use Azureus, or "Vuze". The only issue I have with it, is that it seems like Vuze is taking up alot of memory. Also, I notice PeerGuardian not blocking as many things. Should I be concerned?
Is anyone using the Bittorrent Client? I hope not, I used it one time and it was so slow. I think I actually only got like 10kb/s, which is terrible.
Also, I did some heavy uploading/downloading last night. I was using 1.7.7 (uTorrent) version, should I be worried? Thats one thing I'm worried about.
Any precautions I should take with Vuze?
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irebel
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25. June 2008 @ 21:53 |
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Well that's funny because with AZUREUS It took me 2 days to download a movie with about 30 active seeders! With a properly tweaked system there is nothing like UTORRENT for high speed downloading with no disk overload. Anyone I referred to UTORRENT 1.6 to were ecstatic on the difference in the time it took to download a program.
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25. June 2008 @ 22:04 |
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Originally posted by rvinkebob:
Originally posted by hikaricor:
See if yall were running Linux, I'd just recommend KTorrent.
Too clunky and it's made specifically for KDE though I know it'll work on GNOME. I rather use a speedy application that looks like the original BitTorrent in some ways but is very revved up - Transmission ;)
uTorrent was always crap to me. VERY SLOW and the features only made the application worse in my opinion. Azureus was my preference if I wanted a nice GUI combined with a great service and a feature-rich client. It's also the client I use mainly for Windows, and Transmission for Linux.
thats odd I have tried all the BTCs and Utorrent was the only one to work right.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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irebel
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25. June 2008 @ 22:30 |
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And simple. Thanks again Zeepy for the link. I downloaded UTORRENT1.6 and using it right now, I've got 13 downloads going (aprox. 9800 mg) at 1.3 mgbps, man is she kicking ass again once more.
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corn
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25. June 2008 @ 23:17 |
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I got a little over 290 kb/s (normal speeds right now), so idk, it took me about an hour to dl a 500mb file. I kinda like Vuze.
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grinnz
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26. June 2008 @ 11:31 |
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Thanx for the oldversion link Zippy.
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Rexx72
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25. November 2008 @ 14:51 |
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