uTorrent Developer Denies Installing Cryptocurrency Miner Without User Consent

Be that as is it may, company is not entirely blameless.

On Thursday, a uTorrent user going by the handle “Groundrunner” took to the popular torrent client’s official forum to report something fishy. Updating to the latest version of the client (3.4.2 build 38913), he complained, “silently installed a piece of software called EpicScale” (a cryptocurrency miner) on his machine. He also linked to a web page littered with similar complaints …read more

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