Malicious BitTorrent Clients: New Coat of Paint, Same Bad Story

[aryayush]

In January, we reported on two malware-loaded BitTorrent clients, Torrent101 and Bitroll. Both clients promised ‘high speed downloads’ but actually install a payload of malware onto the victim’s PC.

Unfortunately, several popular torrent sites carried advertising for these bad clients but thankfully, sites like The Pirate Bay saw the damage these things can cause and removed the adverts. TPB’s brokep wrote, “We’re getting a lot of email about people downloading torrent clients that are advertised on the site. Do not download them! We have put a ban for the ad companies to sell ads for these clients on our site.” Mininova and Snarf-it also blocked the adverts.

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Windows users, beware! Please always use µTorrent and don't try downloading these clients. Remember, prevention is better than cure.

 

[freebird]

atleast Azureus is safe thx btwn

 

[aryayush]

You use Linux. You're safe anyway, I guess.

 

[freebird]

btwn where is the savvy windows users?

 

[gxsaurav]

Windows users are already using Compiled version of Azureous or Utorrent.

 

[sachin_kothari]

^^true. no messing around with other torrent clients.

 

[Faun]

azureus and mutorrent are still safe

 

[saurabh.sauron]

Ktorrent here. it beats azureus at least in linux.

 

[Third Eye]

I am using uTorrent

 

[NucleusKore]

Azureus here

 

[hailgautam]

Utorent+BSNL rock i get 200Kbsp = 1600 kbps he ha ha

 

[sadabakwas]

bit tornado is the best!

 

[mkmkmk]

utorrent......