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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 announc

• 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.