Nepažnjom do rudarenja litecoina

slučajno mi se poklopilo da sam reinstalirao windowse prije par dana, te instalirao utorrent i sasvim sam siguran da nisam pristao na instalaciju tog epic scale, a svejedno mi se našao na laptopu. pazim na te stvari. to je malware. uopće ne nudi opciju uninstall nego moraš preko ccleanera i sličnib programa. 

Ma kakav archive.org, dodi ovdje i citaj vijesti od prije par dana^^

Ukratko rečeno - bezobraznici. Iako pažljivo biram šta klikam i gotovo uvijek idem na custom, vidim da imam spornu verziju. Aplikacija se automatski ažurirala na najnoviju verziju. U task manageru u procesima ne vidim ništa pod nazivom epic scale, možda neki drugi ušminkani naziv. Ne mora biti nepažnja, opet se zakačiš, otkud mogu znati da se u nekim narednim verzijama mogu pojaviti nekakve gluposti na nekakvim aplikacijama ako se same ažuriraju. Sad jedno znam - utorrent više neće na moje kante.

μTorrent izbjegavam već godinama. qBitTorrent je i više nego odlična alternativa.

Po meni su najbolji oni programi koji su najmanji i najlakši, pogotovo kad je u pitanju jednostavan torrent klijent.

Koliko vidim, ovaj qBitTorrent koji se spominje kao alternativa ima preko 10MB, to je previše.

Zato ja koristim uTorrent 2.0 koji ima ravno 313 KB prije instalacije i 312 KB poslije instalacije, malen, brz, jednostavan i bez smeća.

Kome treba, evo link za skidanje: http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/HuaPiLx8/file.html

Screenshot: http://www.pohrani.com/f/3Y/z3/3IhJtoKQ/capture.png

(potrebno je samo isključiti updejt u postavkama).

A jel ima ijedan koji je manji od 10 MB (pretpostavljam da je to zato jer nosi cijeli QT sa sobom).

Htio bi nesto moderno, al isto malo kao uTorrent (nekoliko stotina KB).

Već mi se dogodilo da me instalacija uTorrenta (i mislim da daemon toolsa) pita za takve sumnjive programe. Iako osobno koristim Transmission, većini klijenata sam do sada instaliravao uTorrent,od sada više neću.

Još jedna bura u čaši vode:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/06/utorrent-bitcoin-miner/
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/03/06/is-utorrent-secretly-installing-bitcoin-mining-software-probably-not/
http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/epic-scale-and-utorrent-bitcoin-mining-riskware-investigated
http://betanews.com/2015/03/06/reports-that-utorrent-silently-installs-bitcoin-crapware-are-crap/

We have been investigating the issue and we believe that the following has happened:

The µTorrent installer connects with the µTorrent server to ask which adware it should offer to the users. From µTorrent's perspective, this makes sense, because the 'latest' adware can always be offered to the users without having to modify the installer. Or it can do a random (or less random) adware selection of all its partners, without having to bundle everything (it's difficult to say you are micro, if the binary is very large). It's a lean way to offer adware without having

Now at some point in time, the reply from the server was malformed or otherwise incorrect, which caused the installer to incorrectly interpret the server reply and simply install epicscale without permission. The very reason nobody, including us, have been able to reproduce the issue, is that the µTorrent server has stopped sending these incorrect replies. So the problem was not tied to any build number, or probably even µTorrent version, but to the µTorrent server to which all installers connect for adware offerings. Of course the installer should still not install anything silently, regardless of the server response, so in that sense the installer was, and still is, very buggy. Basically it grants µTorrent the capability to install literally anything without the user's knowledge or consent.

Having said that, the short-term problem seems to have been fixed, so we have reallowed µTorrent 3.4.2.

I would also like to add my own personal take on this whole small disaster. I still think people should in fact avoid µTorrent 3. I'll explain why I think so in the next post. It consists not so much of technical considerations, but mostly of somewhat more philosophical/political notes.