uTorrent client is stealing your CPU cycles to mine Bitcoins

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Romero

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I think its silly to even use torrent software. Cheap and far more safe to subscribe to services that download the torrents for you, and allow you to download it from their servers at high speed and anomalously.

 

No thanks, I can do without anomalous downloads! :)

 

I've always used my uTorrent as a portable app too, I launch it with the /recover parameter so the settings are loaded from the uTorrent folder.

 

You only need /recover if you're running multiple instances of uTorrent, for otherwise running it a second time will simply activate the first instance. If you only have a single copy running then you don't need /recover to make it run portable and load settings.dat from the executable's directory.

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Krome

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I am using uTorrent just cos I want to test the water.. Been using it... But now that I hear of this Qbittorrent thingy, I will give it a try but not now.  There are ways to remove junk from uTorrent as of now.. Not sure about the future of uTorrent tho...

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Torolol

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Anyone know how to check for that bitcoin mining stuff to see if it's in your computer?

Miners need to regularly reports what its doing to pooling server.

So, the usual way is to look at connection list and see if it connected to IP addresses that not in your torrent peer's IP.

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+John Teacake MVC

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uTorrent was good  back in the way then it became a sell out. Fair play to them if they wanted to make money why not just do this from the the start. Now its just adware. qTorrent. Transmission. Any of these are better for us Power Users. 

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MikeM97

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uTorrent was good  back in the way then it became a sell out. Fair play to them if they wanted to make money why not just do this from the the start. Now its just adware. qTorrent. Transmission. Any of these are better for us Power Users. 

 

What torrent client would you recommend me ?

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DeusProto

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uTorrent to qBittorrent migration script, with compiled version.

 

Uses resume.dat to port over your torrents, labels, even ports over the file hashes so qBittorrent doesn't have to re-hash things.

 

Source code and program here: http://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php/topic,3224.msg15518.html#msg15518

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PaulATMOS

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I still use 2.2.1 with peer block work great for me

What does Peer Block actually block? MPAA and RIAA IP addresses and other known anti-piracy groups?

Seems like it would be easy for them to get around those blocks.

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Chris123NT

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Due to the recommendations in this thread I'm now happily using Deluge, although I tried everything mentioned here and here's what I found.

Vuze - another adware riddled piece of junk like utorrent, there was actually more things to say skip and no to during install of this.

qBitorrent - Nice but just something about it seems off.

 

And Transmission is just meh.  Deluge seems to nail it, clean UI and all the features I want/need.

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