Lets you subscribe to RSS feeds and download files automatically While you can set it to normal, low and high, you can also set a maximum download and upload speed. Nevertheless, you can check out the tabs underneath to view more in-depth information about the file, including the IP and locations of the peers, speed spikes and other transfer details.Ī noteworthy feature is that you can manage the bandwidth allocation for the torrents so that it does not impact the rest of your tasks. Therefore, you can preview the name, size, status, download and upload speeds, seeds, peers and the estimated time for the files being downloaded. The application comes with an intuitive interface that displays all the data you need to know about the torrents you are managing. This is why we suggest to use Peerblock or to use a VPN in order to block known peer monitoring services. Allows you to configure speed limits and set priority downloadsįirst off, due to privacy concerns, some users have legit concerns regarding tracking. UTorrent is a lightweight utility that does not only make grabbing torrents easy but also packs numerous other useful features, like RSS feeds, remote access and creating your torrent files to share with others. In fact, just because you can effortlessly spread big media files around the Internet in just a couple of minutes, makes torrents an attractive alternative to businesses, media and developers. (In terms of pinpointing which one it was, there are probably hundreds or thousands of bogus torrents out there, so even if I'd been able to find the exact one, it probably wouldn't have been much help to you in your situation.From convenience and speed to the fact that it is backed by a decentralized process used by P2P, there are numerous reasons why you may want to use torrents for grabbing files. I figured whichever file it was it wasn't worth trashing my computer over, so deleting the 15 or 20 files that were seeding at the time was a small price to pay. Avast wasn't saying that uTorrent.exe was a Trojan rather, that one of the (unknown) files it was seeding was bad.
Fortunately, Avast was able to prevent any phone homes or problems. Once I deleted all the torrents and the data files themselves the problem never reappeared.
So I can't really say which file was causing the problem, but it was something that was seeding via uTorrent at the time. I deleted all the small torrent files (as well as the data files themselves - movies) that were active in uTorrent at the time the warnings first appeared, and ran Malwarebytes and Sophos anti-rootkit afterwards just to be sure.
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