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Update uTorrent and find your computer hijacked, mining Bitcoins for BitTorrent
- lloydde 12y ago"The hugely popular download service uTorrent is still taking heat after announcing it would no longer freight downloads with software that slows the user's computer for the parent company's bitcoin-mining purposes -- a practice most users weren't aware of and hadn't agreed to. The software, known as Epic Scale, hijacks a user's computing and memory power in order for uTorrent owner BitTorrent Inc. to generate computing power to mine for bitcoin." http://www.ibtimes.com/slow-computer-utorrent-epic-scale-bitcoin-mining-software-slowing-down-computers-1840466 http://www.ibtimes.com/slow-computer-utorrent-epic-scale-bit...
- lloydde 12y agoComment by moeburn on http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/epic-scale-and-utorrent-bitcoin-mining-riskware-investigated http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/epic-scale-and-utorre... "Your investigation neglected to point out the fact that the choice to install Epic Scale only appears about 25% of the time, but installs 100% of the time. Try going through the installation process a few times, I guarantee you that you will find it doesn't always ask you."
- lloydde 12y agoRecent, related discussion: "Newest version of uTorrent has Bitcoin mining offer during install (utorrent.com)" http://forum.utorrent.com/topic/95041-warning-epicscale-riskware-silently-installed-with-latest-utorrent/ http://forum.utorrent.com/topic/95041-warning-epicscale-risk... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9156405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9156405