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Don't know what's worse: People who use an outdated version and insecure or the latest version of uTorrent. They're both rotten.

What do you mean with insecure?
It's not a antivirus that we are talking about... ..if it downloads torrents well and is not full of bloatware, then it does all it should. No need to fix what is not broken, and v2.1.1 afaik is not.
 
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What do you mean with insecure?
It's not a antivirus that we are talking about... ..if it downloads torrents well and is not full of bloatware, then it does all it should. No need to fix what is not broken, and v2.1.1 afaik is not.

Most likely it is vulnerable to buffer overruns and other exploits making it possible to infect anyone running it simply by sending specially crafted packets and such. You know, kind of like how Twilight Hack works and many of the PSP hacks (before they figured out the signing keys) as well?
 

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Most likely it is vulnerable to buffer overruns and other exploits
um.. interesting.

I'm not knowledgeable enough to comment on that though. Don't know how much likely it is for those possible vulnerabilities to be triggered on older utorrent versions
 

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I do occasionally glance at changelogs of the torrent clients but tprrents past about 2008 is not really my thing as torrents are too annoying and insecure for me to bother to use.

Most of the security issues I see are more anonymity issues; I recall one where a side effect of a protocol might have bypassed a proxy/vpn, more commonly it is things like slightly revised protocols (the original protocol was fairly plaintext, a later revision encrypted the headers to dodge certain types of torrent detection/deep packet inspection (DPI) and today is a bit different again. Old clients may also lack functionality desired by new trackers, features expanded for use with new trackers (trackless/p2p tracker, magnet links and such are all considerably newer than the torrent protocol) and some of the niceties introduced in new clients as far as file management and such.

So yeah you may make the life of the tracker runners harder in some cases, including possibly forcing people to use old protocols to talk to you or you getting booted out of a swarm in the cases of a harsh private tracker, however it is not like running an old web browser or something.
 

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When I saw this I panicked xD just uninstalled it. I have the uTorrent app on my tablet now instead of PC
I would install both qBittorrent in your computer and laptop if I were you, Deluge and Transmission-qt also works fine for desktop (and Deluge got a daemon system so you can run it headless and check via your device)
 

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Well I've never heard it called mu torrent haha but I guess it's always written out with the letter mu either is correct.

Doesn't micro torrent have a better ring to it though? Maybe I'm just use to it :wacko:
I always called it "You"Torrent, but I guess microTorrent makes sense, since it was a lightweight client back in the day comparated to BitTorrent. :P
 
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I always called it "You"Torrent, but I guess microTorrent makes sense, since it was a lightweight client back in the day comparated to BitTorrent. :P
I can't change anymore! I'll call it "You"Torrent till the day I die :P

I even knew that it meant to be microTorrent, but seemed easier to keep considering it as a "u" for some reason.
 
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That's really a major misconception. I have 100mbps download and 4mbps upload. I've never once purchased a seedbox. But I'm an elite on IPTorrents, BroadcasTheNet, and What.cd (which is basically the hardest tracker out there). There are tons of freeleech torrents (download doesn't count but upload does) and it's really not too hard to upload your own stuff and maybe fill some requests. It's not hard to get invited if you follow the proper channels and study for interviews. People just aren't willing to put forth the effort to increase their security and the quality and speed of the torrents they download.

That sounds like an awful lot of effort...
 

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Currently using uTorrent 3.1. Safe? This is the build before the ads and magnet torrents came about. I still use it because the installer is lying in my archive and i hate downloading stuff in terms of these programs. (Using old winamp too)
 

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uTorrent 3.1, this is the build before the ads and magnet torrents came about
wut? ...but I use 2.1.1 and it already supports magnet links :unsure:

actually....

Via µTorrent WIKI page:

Magnet Link (URI) Support

Support for Magnet Links (URIs) was added in version 1.8, released on August 9, 2008.[20] Magnet Links were designed as an alternative to traditional tracker torrent files and became popularized when sites such as The Pirate Bay included native support for the format.
 

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