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Thanks for the clarification. Their comment read to me like they were calling BitTorrent “a blockchain company”, but I guess they were referring to Tron? It wo

Thanks for the clarification. Their comment read to me like they were calling BitTorrent “a blockchain company”, but I guess they were referring to Tron? It would be weird to characterize BitTorrent as “a blockchain company” just because they’ve been sold to another company that is doing blockchain. Edit: The original article and the comments above gave me the impression that BitLord was a product by the BitTorrent company but it’s not. Removed sentence asking about who made the decision to bundle malware and when.

RL_Quine 7y ago
https://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorrent-is-now-part-of-tron/ https://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorre... The announcement is dated 23rd July 2018. https://www.airoav.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/image14.png https://www.airoav.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/image14.pn... The certificate for the malware is stamped 4th September 2018.
- codetrotter 7y ago
  That doesn’t tell us when they first started bundling the malware though. Either way, I just found out that BitLord is not made by the BitTorrent company. Same thing has happened before – companies bundling malware with their own BitTorrent clients. For example, in 2016. https://www.pcworld.com/article/3114134/bittorrent-client-is-found-distributing-mac-based-malware.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/3114134/bittorrent-client-is... I think any blockchain companies have nothing much relevance here. And I guess what the top-most commenter was calling for was that BitTorrent the company should use trademark laws to disallow companies that bundle malware with their software from using the BitTorrent brand?
  - rocqua 7y ago
    I remember having to format my PC after updating uTorrent and just spamming next. I installed some opt-out adware that was a decent rootkit.

RL_Quine 7y ago

https://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorrent-is-now-part-of-tron/ https://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorre... The announcement is dated 23rd July 2018. https://www.airoav.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/image14.png https://www.airoav.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/image14.pn... The certificate for the malware is stamped 4th September 2018.

codetrotter 7y ago
That doesn’t tell us when they first started bundling the malware though. Either way, I just found out that BitLord is not made by the BitTorrent company. Same thing has happened before – companies bundling malware with their own BitTorrent clients. For example, in 2016. https://www.pcworld.com/article/3114134/bittorrent-client-is-found-distributing-mac-based-malware.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/3114134/bittorrent-client-is... I think any blockchain companies have nothing much relevance here. And I guess what the top-most commenter was calling for was that BitTorrent the company should use trademark laws to disallow companies that bundle malware with their software from using the BitTorrent brand?
- rocqua 7y ago
  I remember having to format my PC after updating uTorrent and just spamming next. I installed some opt-out adware that was a decent rootkit.