Secunia has issued two new ?highly critical? security alerts, one for uTorrent, version 1.7.7, build 8179 and the second for the official BitTorrent client, in version 6.xx.
?A vulnerability has been discovered in BitTorrent, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user?s system,? the alert says.
The vulnerability was originally discovered by Rhys Kidd ... [ read the full article ]
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gm: You're right, I used Azureus for a while as well and wasn't happy because I was never getting the highest speeds that my line can get. So I went to look for another client, and found bittyrant. It's nickname is the "selfish bittorrent client". If you go to the homepage here, you can read more about the modifications they made to Azureus 2.5. The GUI is the same, but the performance is much better. I don't know how safe it is, but it has the same features as Azureus plus a little extra.
