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wut? ...but I use 2.1.1 and it already supports magnet links :unsure:

actually....
I was on my cell posting at the time and guessed which version I was using.

On my desktop now and I'm surprisingly using 1.8.1!

(which actually doesn't support magnet links and it's a real bother)

Huh.
 

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I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I know when it turned into a Bittorrent client clone (with green accents instead of purple) is when the ads came in and it turned into complete crap.. Did Bittorrent buy them out or something??? I haven't checked it out in a long time, but even the web pages had the exact same design, just the colors and names were different
 

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I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I know when it turned into a Bittorrent client clone (with green accents instead of purple) is when the ads came in and it turned into complete crap.. Did Bittorrent buy them out or something??? I haven't checked it out in a long time, but even the web pages had the exact same design, just the colors and names were different

Yes, BitTorrent bought them on December 7, 2006, after that, BitTorrent 6.0 was released, it was a reskin version of uTorrent. Being a reskin version of uTorrent, it also became closed-source, unlike BitTorrent 5.0 and earlier.
 

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Yes, BitTorrent bought them on December 7, 2006, after that, BitTorrent 6.0 was released, it was a reskin version of uTorrent. Being a reskin version of uTorrent, it also became closed-source, unlike BitTorrent 5.0 and earlier.
Sad sad day:cry: ... I stopped using it immediately when that happened

Now what have we got? Mining malware... tsktsk
 

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Now that I recall, my sister had her Lenovo laptop infected with adware and she had uTorrent installed so all that crap was thanks to uTorrent. After cleaning and removing it the laptop got all better.
 

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Now that I recall, my sister had her Lenovo laptop infected with adware and she had uTorrent installed so all that crap was thanks to uTorrent. After cleaning and removing it the laptop got all better.
It's not uTorrent's fault your sister installed stuff without paying attention. And, since she doesn't pay attention to installs, it's quite likely she got adware from other places as well.
 

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Yes, I saw this.
Only, I had the option not to install it during the installation process of uTorrent.

I wish that was the case but I encountered a virus on a mac a few months ago. The user installed a "codec pack" to watch a fake movie download. Suddenly fake OS pop-ups and browser hijackings galore.

That... isn't considered as a virus.
Thats simply adware, and every system suffers from that.
 

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Or upgrade to a torrent program that's actually good.

http://www.qbittorrent.org/ is like uTorrent used to be; Simple, clean and straightforward with no add-on bs.

It's hard to get used to the new UI, I mean I've used uTorrent for some 5 years now...
Version 3.2.2 is actually OK, it's endorsed by most trackers and is cleaner than the new uTorrent with no phishing scams.
 

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