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Topic: uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner (Read 288 times)

legendary
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August 27, 2015, 01:06:34 PM
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This was a news back in April-May.
Since then all uTorrent users that read the news have migrated to something else.

qBittorrent was the choice I liked and I use now.
sr. member
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Check your coin privilege
uTorrent has been bought by the MPAA and silently mines bitcoins for "charity" by quietly installing a program called EpicScale. (link to EpicScale website) It shows in Programs and Features, but does not actually uninstall when you try to uninstall it through Progs&Features. Somebody posted a warning about EpicScale in the uTorrent forums, but the mods of the uTorrent forums deleted it. Beware!
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