ΜTorrent 3.4.5 onInitial releaseSeptember 18, 2005; 14 years ago ( 2005-09-18)Written in, (Server version only, only officially supports very old versions of and ),Available inWebsiteμTorrent, or uTorrent (see ) is a owned and developed. With over 150 million users it is the most widely used BitTorrent client outside China; globally only behind. The ' (Greek letter ') in its name comes from the ', referring to the program's small: the program was designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger BitTorrent clients such as or.The program has been in active development since its first release in 2005. Although originally developed by, since December 7, 2006, the code is owned and maintained by BitTorrent, Inc. The code has also been employed by BitTorrent, Inc. As the basis for version 6.0 and above of the, a re-branded version of μTorrent. All versions are written in C.
Contents.History Early development Out of general discontent with, Serge Paquet suggested to that he should make a smaller and more efficient BitTorrent client. Strigeus began to conceptualize the plans for the program's development, which, at the time, did not include making the client feature-rich. After initially working on it for about a month during the last quarter of 2004 (the first build is dated October 17, 2004), mostly during his free time before and after work, Strigeus ceased coding μTorrent for a year. He resumed work on September 15, 2005, and three days later, the first public release (version 1.1 beta) was made available as, and began generating feedback.PeerFactor SARL On March 4, 2006, PeerFactor SARL announced the signing of a six-month contract with Strigeus for the development of 'new content distribution applications on the Web.' PeerFactor SARL is a relatively new company formed by former employees of PeerFactor, which was a subsidiary of the French anti-piracy organization.Ludde stated that his coding for PeerFactor SARL was to use his expertise at optimization of the BitTorrent to create a which PeerFactor SARL intended to use as part of a distribution platform for files in a corporate setting.
At the time there was some speculation that μTorrent may have been modified to spy on users on Peerfactor's behalf, however to date (even following μTorrent's acquisition by BitTorrent, Inc.) no evidence has been produced to support these allegations.Ownership change On December 7, 2006, μTorrent was purchased byOn September 18, 2007, 6.0 was released. Although previous versions of the BitTorrent client had been, with version 6 it became closed.In April 2017, BitTorrent founder announced that the next version of μTorrent would be based. This uTorrent version allows users to stream torrents from the default web browser, similar to a regular. Features. This article is in format, but may read better as. You can help by, if appropriate.
Is available. Screenshot of μTorrent Server viewed in FirefoxμTorrent is available for,. A μTorrent Server is also available for.The first test version for macOS, running on, was released on 27 November 2008.On September 2, 2010, the native version of μTorrent Server was released. Firon, an administrator of the μTorrent community forum, said that they had been working on this project for a few months prior to the release as it was the most requested feature for some time. This release is intended for users who are seeking a fast based client with a remote web-based management.
They also mentioned that a full featured client with a is a work in progress. He also said:This is a native Linux port and is known to work on 9.10+, 5+ and 12+. Others may work, but they are not officially supported. Kernel 2.6.13 or newer required. 64-bit host systems currently have some problems, so 32-bit only for now. For trackers who whitelist, the user agent is 'uTorrent/300B(build#)(server)'.
The peerid is identical to the Windows 3.0 client. They share version numbers because of a common codebase.Currently μTorrent supports or newer and or newer. Revenue In early versions, Strigeus had built in a web redirection via nanotorrent for search queries entered through the search bar that displayed advertisements in a frame on the web browser. Some users thought this suspicious because tracking could be implemented by recording the of those downloading/receiving the advertisements, and the search functionality could easily be used to track user queries through whichever web-interface the client is going through to execute the search. After a short trial period, the advertising was disabled, mitigating possible concerns.A later version of the software has, instead of ads, a 'search all sites' feature, which is a keyword-based search bar that delivers listings of torrent files at different trackers. A frame at the top displays advertisements (server-side) in the browser when the search function is used. In version 1.5, no ads are present in the program itself.As of build 463, a redirect bypass feature became available in the Advanced options.As of version 1.8.2, the μTorrent installer gives the user the option to download and install the.
This is done on the first run of the program and the user may explicitly opt out of this feature by deselecting it. The developers stated the addition was needed for funds to continue development. In late 2010, this was replaced with the.Toolbars In late 2010, some controversy arose with a release of μTorrent which included in the form of the Engine, which installed a toolbar, and made homepage and default search engine changes to a user's web browser. A number of users reported that the installation was made without the user's consent. There were some complaints that the adware software was difficult to remove.In 2011, μTorrent bundled the. Paid version On July 15, 2011, BitTorrent announced that they would offer a paid version of μTorrent called 'μTorrent Plus'. This new version would offer extra features, such as integrated file conversion, anti-virus and a built in media player.
On 6 October 2011, the of μTorrent Plus was released to an invitation only community. As of December 2011, μTorrentPlus 3.1 was available for $24.95; as of December 2014, the Plus version was available as a $19.95 yearly subscription.Ads and malware In August 2012, BitTorrent announced the addition of in the free version of µTorrent which could be individually dismissed by users. Due to response from users, a few days later, the company stated that ads could be optionally turned off.
A user-created tool known as 'Pimp My µTorrent' was also created to simplify the process of disabling ads in the Windows version. Starting with µTorrent version 3.2.2, the software also contains in-content advertisements described as 'Featured Torrent'. As with ads, it is possible to disable this content.In March 2015, it was alleged that μTorrent had automatically installed a program known as Epic Scale—a program classified as ' by some security programs, which mines the in the background for BitTorrent, Inc. (allegedly giving a portion to charity ), utilizing and power. A μTorrent developer disputed the claim that it was automatically installed, and claimed that as with all other 'partner' programs bundled with the software, users could decline the installation.
On March 28, Epic Scale was permanently removed from the installation and as a software bundle partner.Russian and Ukrainian users of μTorrent are being tricked into installing and other Yandex-produced software. Pronunciation The author of μTorrent wrote in 2005, 'I usually say 'you torrent' because it looks like a u', and offered 'microtorrent', 'mytorrent' (as 'my' myː is the Swedish pronunciation of the Greek letter μ) and later 'mutorrent' as alternative pronunciations. In Greece, where the software is widelyused, it is called 'me torrent', since the letter μ of the Greek Alphabet is pronounced mi in modern Greek.The symbol μ is the lowercase letter, which stands for the '. It refers to the program's small footprint.Contributors Original development was performed by ('ludde', from ), the creator of μTorrent. Serge Paquet ('vurlix', from ) acted as release coordinator, and had intended to work on Linux and macOS ports.
He maintained the μTorrent website and forum up until the end of 2005, but is no longer affiliated with μTorrent.Since its purchase in 2006, development has been performed by various employees of Bittorrent Inc. Strigeus is no longer affiliated.Reception μTorrent was once praised for its small size and minimal computer resources used, which set it apart from other clients. Stated that it 'packs an outstanding array of features' in 2006 and listed it in their 2008 'Best free 157 software tools'. It was also in 's '101 Fantastic freebies'. The website.com said it was the most feature rich BitTorrent client available, later summarizing a 2009 study which concluded that 'μTorrent Download Speeds Beat Vuze By 16%' on average and 'on 10% of the 30 most used ISPs, μTorrent users were downloading 30% faster than Vuze users'.
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A torrent is a file sent via the protocol. It can be just about any type of file, such as a movie, song, game, or application. During the transmission, the file is incomplete and therefore is referred to as a torrent.
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Torrent that have been paused or stopped cannot be opened as regular files, since they do not contain all the necessary data. However, they can often be resumed using a BitTorrent client, as long as the file is available from another server.Torrents are different from regular downloads in that they are usually downloaded from more than one at a time. The BitTorrent protocol uses multiple computers to transfer a single file, thereby reducing the required by each server. When a torrent download is started, the BitTorrent system locates multiple computers with the file and downloads different parts of the file from each computer. Likewise, when sending a torrent, the server may send the file to multiple computers before it reaches the recipient. The result is a lower average bandwidth usage, which speeds up file transfers.File Extension. TechTerms - The Tech Terms Computer DictionaryThis page contains a technical definition of Torrent.
It explains in computing terminology what Torrent means and is one of many file format terms in the TechTerms dictionary.All definitions on the TechTerms website are written to be technically accurate but also easy to understand. If you find this Torrent definition to be helpful, you can reference it using the citation links above. If you think a term should be updated or added to the TechTerms dictionary, please!
IntroductionBittorrent has become one of the major download formats. With good reason too: it's fast, equitable and efficient.
For the downloader, bittorrent offers an uncorrupted copy of the original with the option to stop the download at any time and re-start from where the download left off, very useful for those on shaky internet connections.If you haven't yet installed a Bittorrent client on your PC, you should as there are some great freeware clients available. In Bittorrent, the best clients are free.
In fact, if a client costs money, it is most likely a scam. If you are not familiar with bittorrent, then read before continuing this article.All seven bittorrent clients listed here performed excellently on all test torrents and any one of them will meet your needs as a bittorrent client. Rating of the clients was based on their speed and performance, while their features and support facilities were major considerations. A clean installation (without toolbars or ads) was a plus. See also at the end of this page.Rated Products. Missing some features. Support is weak.
Releases have been sporadic. Related Products and LinksThere are setup guides here at Gizmo's Freeware for each of the suggested free bittorrent clients. Links to the guides are provided in each review.Testing and Ranking TestingThe testing of the bittorrent clients was conducted in the two weeks before February 8, 2013 and used the latest versions of the clients at that time.Anyone with knowledge of bittorrent knows that it is nearly impossible to have a testing procedure that is foolproof in measuring small differentials in speed among bittorrent clients. This is due to the fact that your download speed depends on the upload of other active users and there is no control over their actions while testing. However, I have been testing clients for this category for several years and am convinced that the better clients can be separated from the others.There were 7 rounds of testing to boil down the 17 clients tested to the 7 in the review.
Six torrents and three magnet links were used in this part of the testing. I then conducted several tests in two rounds of testing to determine the Top Pick. I did post pdf copies of my notes for each round of testing:.All of the clients listed in the review had excellent performance on all of the testing, so all are superior bittorrent clients. The speed performance on the testing was a factor. Even though the speed differences were small, some consistently performed slightly better.
Features and support were also factors. CPU and RAM mattered in that a client without many features that had high CPU or RAM use would fall to one with low CPU/RAM use. Toolbars and addons in the installation process were a slight factor.Testing was performed on Windows 7 64bit. RankingAll of these clients have the basic bittorrent features like DHT, PEX, encryption and UPnP.All seven of the bittorrent clients listed here performed excellently on all test torrents. Speed and performance was a factor, but features and support facilities were major considerations. A clean installation (without toolbars or ads) was a plus.Most people just want a client to download torrents, but there are some features that a number of users like to use, such as a built in IP Filter, use of RSS feeds, proxy support, a scheduler and a web interface.I will make note of those that have installs or other changes to your system that are not necessary for the proper function of the bittorrent client.
I strongly suggest that if you choose a bittorrent client that has these unnecessary add ons, to not accept those changes or add ons. I have put up guides to help with the installation of the three clients that have these unnecessary steps in the installation process.
About MeI am not a technical expert, but I have been using bittorrent since 2003. Before coming to Gizmo's I was the Administrator at a general bittorrent forum site, giving assistance on a variety of clients, and a moderator at the Vuze fora. I still view a number of bittorrent fora and the fora of the various bittorrent clients.
This gives me a good idea of what the average user is looking for in a bittorrent client.EditorThis software category is in need of an editor. If you would like to give something back to the freeware community by taking it over, check out for more details. You can then contact us from that page or by.Please rate this article. The best user interface of all listed here has Transmissionbt.
You check in the menu not to show Tools, Fiters and you are left with the simplest window only titlebar and your torrents. I like that very much.
You can find it offered to download on the very official page. Qbittorrent in its portableapps incarnation is a piece of turd. Better going with the official installer as the PA one is not in the slightest portable. But as said it does not have the simplicity of Tb and Tixati is ugly and intricated interfacewise.
Most of these programs bring powers that I do not want to understand. Only care about ablity to fetch and send data on a given protocol. or to post comments. I have before pointed out how qBittorrent made me lose 20+ giga of files because of a bug and actually before that it would crash a lot. For the last 2 months I decided to try it again, because of it's attractive simple interface that reminded me of the good old μTorrent days.As of now I can say qBittorent is awesome. I like the UI more than Tixati's that feels more rough and less simplistic and if anything I just want it to download my torrents and not care if Tixati does it in a different way. That is though with me having a 10mbps (1.2MBp/s) connection, so I can;t really talk about people that either have a really slow or much faster connection.STILL though, I do not think qBittorrent is better than Tixati, I just feel and believe it is more simple and that is all.
One feature I really miss from Tixati when using qBittorrent is how with Tixati had 9 different priority choices, which was really nice to have when I would download torrents with a large amount of files and I wanted to separate into many different priorities. Sadly qBittorrent has only 3. Also it had a LOT of choices when it came to setting the bandwidth and seeding for each file if you wanted, in case you wanted to do that.For people that want more advanced options, especially uploaders, 100% Tixati. For users that just want to add downloads and do not care how they work or they are not computer savy qBittorrent.Sadly Vuze is in my far past, when it was still Azureus and I still remember how dumbfound I was with it's awesome UI. UTorrent now, for me, joined Vuse, being a great torrent client of the past. Even people that still love it, seem to prefer to use the 4 year old 2.2.1 version, rather than use the latest 3+. or to post comments.
I want to like qBittorrent, I really do. I've tried it of several separate occasion but I can never get it to work consistently. If I can get it to start working, it's great. Its clean interface, speed, light resources and such is great. Unfortunately I inevitably end up with the dreaded 'STALLED' torrent which I cannot get going again.
It just sites there.So I end up using Tixati, it's good, stable and predictable but it can seem like overkill at times. Perhaps someday I will find stability in qBittorrent, but not today. or to post comments. QBITTORRENT seems to lack uTorrent's great Start, and Force Start. Since torrents sometimes seem to need a kickstart, this is no small deal. I urge experimenters with any torrent client to check for the existence of this feature.
I like Qbittorrent features, like Delete, and Preview are a bit easier to access but watching dead torrents in QB's torrent list and wondering if they'd start if QB had a nudge feature, is really annoying.Another watch for: Gizmo's excellent link to ad-removal page for utorrent. It's a hassle yes, but it does work, despite clumsy wording some entries to be unchecked are already unchecked 'out-of-the-box', so that's confusing. Utorrent without ads: hard to beat!. or to post comments.
I've been trying qBitTorrent for a while now but I'm fed-up with its bugs.If I try to add a torrent that I downloaded a part of previously, it doesn't automatically recheck, all it does is stay 'Stalled' and manual/forced recheck does nothing, it just re-downloads everything again after the check is done.Also, when trying to change the download folder for the torrent, it becomes utterly retarded. Sometimes it works, but often it downloads some of the content to the new folder and the rest in a folder with the original name, it's so frustrating.The only feature I liked about was the 'sequential download' option, it's very helpful when downloading series.etcI'll probably go back to uTorrent 2.2 since I still can't find a decent replacement. or to post comments. Used µTorrent for a few years. I liked small install size and minimalistic interface (and ability to hide even more tabs from info pane, LOL).
For that reasons I didn't mind their ad bar. A few months ago I had problems with auto-update, that just closed the program, but didn't complete the update. So I just ignored update offers. Then several days ago my HDD died on me. So I had to install everything again on the new HDD.
Then I find out that you can't choose install folder any more (at least in Windows). It just installs somewhere deep in user setting folder, not 'Program Files' folders where you would expect program installs. Also, during last few days there was an issue where they tried to bundle install you some BitCoin miner program along with µTorrent. I guess there was an option to uncheck this during install, but by the time I installed µTorrent they (temporarily?) removed all ad offers from the installer.Anyways, with all that I decided to try out qBittorrent. And so far, so good. Interface can be also set to µTorrent-like minimalistic setup that I prefer. You can't disable torrent library window/pane, but can just slide main window over it to hide it.
There isn't auto-config feature (for download/upload speeds & ports) that µTorrent has, but even without default settings, speeds are similar (if not a bit greater) to µTorrent. And no ads.One thing I don't understand though, is how come µTorrent can pack all the features in 1.7 MB installer and most other torrent clients need 10 MB.
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QBittorrent after install has 46 MB on disc. There may be some advanced features under the hood that most average people don't understand, but in the end speed of downloads with most torrent clients are close. I guess that is the most important for most people.
or to post comments. No offense, but calling Tixati's interface 'hideous' makes about as much sense as calling your.user-selected. MS Windows theme hideous.Contrary to most other clients, Tixati's interface is FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE - it allows you to select different themes, and even individually select colours and other aspects of each tiny bit of the interface.Anyone finds it 'hideous', they just have to pick another of the included themes or even build their own with the built-in options to their full satisfaction!:-).
or to post comments. None taken, by the same logic your statement 'attractive interface' is equally meaningless?In any case, I was referring to the interface design. The use of 'Buttons' for almost everything, the large bland icons, the colorfully vague logo design. It all reminds me of applications that was made with VB5/6 for Windows 9X back in the day.I tried it and from what I could tell, you can't really change anything about the interface design. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but you can change colors and fonts, but the icons and ultimately the overall design remains the same. or to post comments.
I tried to use Tixati 64 bit version on my Win7 (64) but it won't even add a torrent file.just hanged.I tried Halite. It's small but not smallest. It's RAM uses are more than that of 'utorrent'. I also displayed a small window saying it will shutdown 'in a while'.
Didn't shutdown in 10 min. So I had to 'End Process' it.I have yet to try qBittorrent but I don't think it will be any better than 'utorrent'.I am using an older version of uTorrent and happy with it. I don't think I need to switch to any other client. or to post comments. You are totally wrong there. I made the switch a few years ago because I was sick of everything about utorrent, including the interface.
Anti-leech system? I haven't really seen any issues. However, maybe I'm not sure what you're talking about because it has to do with using private trackers?
No, I doubt there's a way to know what you need to know. However, there's a LOT of information choices available in the columns you set for the main window. Very helpful.
I have only really had issues with trackers asking me for credentials or whatever, but I think that may be a rarer issue due to some of the security settings I have & maybe my VPN or something. Recommend at least trying qBittorrent. Get it from somewhere besides sourceforge though, unfortunately the owners of that website have destroyed a once great software hub. or to post comments.
+ Why BitTorrent Sites Are a Malware CesspoolPosted onJuly 20th, 2017 byBitTorrent is synonymous with 'illegal' and 'dangerous' for many people, yet it is a great system for, and; in fact, I use it myself every day. Still, BitTorrent sites in general have a bad rap, but why is that? One word: Malware.When software is downloaded from a BitTorrent website, typically said software is a paid product that has been cracked or comes with a crack that turns it into a fully functional application, without having to pay a penny. When a product is 'cracked,' it means that the person who cracked the program has hacked into it — figured out a way to bypass the registration key — and modified it, so they can use it for free.
In many cases, demo or trial periods are cracked, so they are extended indefinitely, and the licensing process is cracked to accept any details as valid and/or the software comes with a key generator that spits out a name and password that can be used to unlock it.These cracks, patches and key generators are also more often than not the source of malware and, in some cases, the software itself has been modified to deliver malware. Is BitTorrent safe to use?The short answer is that the BitTorrent program itself is relatively safe, but like any software that connects to the Internet, it is susceptible to attacks. However, do not confuse the safety of peer-to-peer programs like BitTorrent with the files that are shared through those programs.
These files are the real threat. But are some of them safe? How safe are files shared through BitTorrent?To find out the risks of BitTorrent and whether or not files shared through the program are as bad as its reputation is made out to be, I browsed a few BitTorrent sites and downloaded the popular software they had available (strictly for testing purposes, all of which I promptly deleted after testing).If every piece of software from BitTorrent programs are malware laden, why would it still be around? Do vast numbers of ordinary people risk malware attacks, possible fines and jail time (downloading these kinds of files is illegal in most countries) by downloading cracked software from BitTorrent? Surely it can't be that bad.Malware like, and ransomware like and must be the rare exception. So I took it upon myself to find out, and here's what I discovered.After pulling in several gigabytes of software shared through BitTorrent, I fired up and let it loose on the Downloads folder. The results were shocking.Every crack, patch and key generator included in these downloads was flagged!Here is a screenshot showing just a small part of the results:And it's not just the downloaded software from BitTorrent that poses a risk, the torrent websites themselves try very hard to get extra stuff installed on your system as well.
Most time spent on those websites is spent fighting off pop-ups and redirects, each presenting you with tons of fake Flash Player update alerts, scare tactics and more.Just a few examples of the things that popped up can be seen in the graphic below. Merely two minutes torrenting lands you in a malware cesspool.This is just what popped up after merely two minutes of browsing torrent sites, not including duplicates! It's exhausting, and it certainly makes you wonder how people get around to downloading anything at all from these sites. Seriously.Each and every cracked software shared on BitTorrent will download malware to your Mac, if clicked. A quick sampling showed several, and even the recently covered popped up. Quite a few also popping up. Each of these sites also asked me to activate Flash Player in my browser, no doubt looking for vulnerabilities to exploit.Some of these fake warnings and messages look better than others. Mediachance dynamic photo hdri v4.01: software free download.
All it takes is one to successfully trick a user into installing it, and malware will be brought onto the system. The good, bad, and ugly of BitTorrent downloadsThere are good reasons for using BitTorrent, as mentioned at the beginning of this article, but the bad news is it is by far mostly used for the downloading of illegal software, TV shows and games. Both the websites that offer up this content and the content itself are a major risk to the security of your Mac and your data.Furthermore, your Internet service provider may also disconnect you if they see you're downloading illegal software. The ugly truth is you could even get sued by the developer of the software or producer of the show/movie/music. Trust me, they keep a close eye on these downloads to see exactly who is infringing on their copyright.So is it worth the risk?
But take heed: Every user should take extra precautions when using BitTorrent sites. Do you have a different opinion or perhaps a BitTorrent horror story of your own? Drop us a comment below!As for the test software I downloaded from BitTorrent: About Jay VrijenhoekJay Vrijenhoek is an IT consultant with a passion for Mac security research. He conducts independent malware protection tests, and also writes about privacy and security related matters on his blog. Follow him on Twitter at.This entry was posted in, and tagged,. Bookmark the.
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