Comments on: So long, uTorrent

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By: Ethan C. Nobles

Ethan C. Nobles — Fri, 10 May 2013 04:08:47 +0000

I’ve gotta tell ya — I can’t believe uTorrent is still pulling this garbage. Thank goodness for qBittorrent, which provides all the functionality and none of the nonsense.

By: Josh M

Josh M — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:06:21 +0000

The latest version of utorrent (3.3 build 29625) now attempts to force THREE crapwares onto the unsuspecting user during the installation process:

In order of appearance:
1) Some free music (Kaskade)offered for you to ‘check out’
2) Conduit toolbar
3) CHINESE PC optimizer software

Sorry utorrent, but that is a scummy way to do your business. I don’t buy the ‘we need money to pay engineering salaries’ nonsense. In fact, utorrent as a bitorrent client is quite feature complete and as a mature project, requires only the occasional bug fix.

I think you just want more money into your own pockets, and to pay those managers, marketers within your company hierarchy. In fact, the very existence of utorrent plus is a marketing decision, and it is nothing but bloatware.

Shame on you, utorrent.

By: Ethan C. Nobles

Ethan C. Nobles — Sun, 05 May 2013 18:51:11 +0000

Rebecca, I hear you and agree completely. I wonder if the uTorrent folks see the irony here — they claim to be in need of money, so they’re trying to pawn this slop off on their users. Meanwhile, uTorrnet knowingly develops and distributes a piece of software that is routinely used to steal copyrighted material, thus depriving companies/artists of cash.

Odd, no?

By: rebecca olesen

rebecca olesen — Sat, 04 May 2013 10:02:15 +0000

OH YEAH and my god, could they have chosen a sleazier more disgusting fraudulent parasitic CPU sucking piece of crap company for their toolbar ‘sponsor’ than CONDUIT? I MIGHT consider a utorrent toolbar if it was published by anybody else on earth. A banker/businessman from Nigeria, for example, might be more honest.

By: rebecca olesen

rebecca olesen — Sat, 04 May 2013 09:55:04 +0000

When I upgraded my utorrent, it ‘claimed’ to give me the option of downloading the toolbar (like all program downloads with 3rd party installations you don’t want – often trick people by including a line in bright red ‘must accept terms of service to complete download’ or some such crap RIGHT NEXT TO the buttons on whether or not you want to accept their 3rd party program – A TRICK because the statement is not related to the 3rd party download, but to the terms of service you already agreed to before you made it to that ‘optional’ toolbar.

However, i am aware of all the tricks and NO QUESTION I did NOT accept and do NOT EVER accept toolbars – BUT I GOT IT ANYWAY.

Some updates have not even presented ‘A CHOICE’ the crap just gets installed without my permission.

Anybody who says it’s EASY or that you have a choice is either stupid or a liar.

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By: gslack

gslack — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:08:24 +0000

Was taken by the install as well… Had to jump through hoops to get rid of conduit and eventually had to go into the registry and remove the garbage by hand.

Here’s what I have found after a bit of experimenting…

1. The Utorrent installer uses 2nd (or third) party installers to add the “so-called new features”. Conduit and the toolbar are installed by their own respective installers from within the Utorrent installer.

2. This can cause problems and botched installs for certain users. Users with exceptionally fast processors, memory, and high system specs, can end up with botched installs. Also, the UAC, firewall settings, and advanced permissions settings in a given users pc can have an adverse effect on the install process. How much a problem and what features cause this are as of yet unclear. Could be a setting in the security and permissions added to an exceptionally fast system, cause it. Can’t be sure exactly, but the fact remains too many users express either they select not to install the added features and it installs anyway, or they don’t get the option in an install or upgrade process, to say its all their inattentiveness.

3. This added conduit software is classified as malware and a browser hijacker by most major PC security vendors, and the fact it does not uninstall directly proves this fact. An honest piece of software with no malice intended would uninstall with at least as little fuss as it installed. If not they should take steps to allow users to fix this as easily as possible. Which they do neither of..

Fact is bitorrent/utorrent proliferate malware, and no matter how benign they claim their intent, it is as hard to remove as many trojans, hacks, viruses or other malware.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:11:50 +0000

Thanks for the useful article. I updated my utorrent client and it shoved the toolbar on me, breaking several features of Firefox. I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of it.

If you install fresh, it does the same thing. Yes, I clicked the “Decline” button and clicked next and….voila. Toolbar!

Stupid, stupid utorrent!