Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent client that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. It also features an embedded tracker that is easily set up and ready to use.
Download: Azureus v2.3.0.2
View: Changelog
News source: azureus.sourceforge.net
It is important to note that this issue is not a security vulnerability or a hack that puts customers at any risk, nor is it a vulnerability in the activeX control WGA uses to determine if a customer is running genuine Windows. This is simply an issue of users taking a validation code from a genuine copy of Windows and using it on a non-genuine copy of Windows. The threat is similar to that posed by the illegal distribution of software burned to CDs.
Of course a counterfeiter could use this method to steal software for themselves, but because the code expires quickly, it would be useless to share the code with any other users.
Q: Who would benefit from this practice?
A: This method of counterfeiting is only an option for relatively sophisticated users who are running both a genuine version of Windows (from which they would take the code) and a non-genuine version (to which they would apply it). This method only applies to the Download Center, where customers would need to know exactly what to look for, and not Windows Update or the Automatic Updates feature that most customers use.
Q: How does the code expire?
A: Microsoft “hashes” the PID returned from the validation tool (genuinecheck.exe) with a Microsoft.com timeserver time code that is checked by the page logic on the Download Center, which means the code is only valid for a short period of time.
Q: Does Microsoft have plans to change or improve WGA validation to address this vulnerability?
A: With WGA, Microsoft seeks to balance the need to make downloads easily available for customers, while trying to safeguard our IP from counterfeiters. In striking this balance, Microsoft will defer to the needs of its customers to validate their computers as easily as possible so that they can receive the updates they need to stay secure. Furthermore, because the code generated by the validation tool expires so quickly, we don’t perceive this as an issue significant enough to outweigh our customers’ needs for hassle-free downloads.

i now hover around 70 to 110megs, but dont forget SAFEPEER plugin with 80,000 ips does use up a lot of memory for it.
lmao - Java is the last thing I'd put in the exclusion list; most of the viruses I've ever had have been related to Java.
If you are stuck with the old version, it means you haven't searched for help on this issue.
The Wiki at the Azureus site, and the FAQ, have all the answers on how to get around the problems with NOD32.
Excluding javaw.exe in your IMON is not very dangerous. theyarecomingforyou (what kind of a user name is that?), just make sure you don't download any bullcrap from Limewire or anything that would use Javaw.exe, or from any BitTorrent site, and you should be fine.
But I guess some of you are just scared to death! Kitties!
thanks...
Guess the mirror had the wrong version even though the file name had 2.3.0.2 in it.
I downloaded it agine from other mirror and now every thing is fine
From my point of view it is not safe to let java have it´s way with your PC.
Also have used, and would recommend the ABC client as well....Azureus has always been too high of CPU usage for me to like it.....so maybe this revision will be better than all previous incarnations....
Azureus 2.3.x.x causes all kinds of issues with 100% CPU usage, weird error messages, etc.
i keep going back to 2.2.0.2 as well since its the last version that works for me.
"While it is called trackerless, in practice it makes every client a lightweight tracker. A clever protocol, based on a Kademlia distributed hash table or "DHT", allows clients to efficiently store and retrieve contact information for peers in a torrent."
Which is the same as the one Azureus is using. I would conclude that they would interoperate.
I find the new version to ... bloat?
Well, not bloat, but it's got a lot of fancy new extras I find unneccesary. I've been hearing people having too many problems with CPU usage, router/modem disconnections, etc.
Does anyone know of/have a guide that can make 3.2.0.2 just as good as 2.2.02 was? You know, with all the bug fixes, but no "fancy extras."
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