BitTorrent and its lighter version, uTorrent have a serious security flaw.
Google researcher found a technique that allows attackers to direct DNS requests to user's computer, allowing to spoof the download sources, download files, add them to startup folder and more.
All versions of uTorrent and BitTorrent are affected and bug is only fixed in latest beta.
"On December 4, 2017, ... [ read the full article ]
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I torrent stuff, not rampantly leeching by any stretch of the imagination but I do download.
A torrent is a torrent is a torrent. The protocol remains the same for the most part and rather unchanged. Utorrent 2.2.1 is the last Utorrent before they implemented ads. This in turn should be impervious to the current vulnerability as there aren't any ads to be exploited. Some say 2.2.0 but 2.2.1 is indeed the only and BEST torrent client available..........PERIOD!
The only other viable alternative to 2.2.1 is 1.8.1; 2.2.0 had several dire flaws, actually, that are not present in either 1.8.1 (which does not handle magnet links, IIRC) and 2.2.1.
