Until recently uTorrent was a civilized and useful program, until about month ago when it started incessantly nagging to be updated.
Eventually conceding defeat, just to see the back of all the "new updates are available, are you really sure you don't want to update?" popups, I reluctantly did.
Of course I was careful to untick any boxes that asked if it was OK to take over my browser and computer. But the new version went ahead and did so anyway!
After failing to uninstall it using the standard Windows uninstall, I've just spent 20 minutes picking through the Registry obliterating anything containing "Vuze", "Conduit", "ej-technologies", "uTorrent", and now thankfully all trace of it is gone.
(Presumably another dastardly malware technique is to install under all kinds of different names, sockies if you like, so that if one goes then it can hang on and maybe even reinstall itself.)
It seems as if after a stint on their best behaviour all these programs "go bad". I wonder if that is planned from the outset, or do they start out altruistic and are later taken over by mercenary scumbags and become victims of their own success?
Anyway, I wondered if anyone else had recently encountered problems with uTorrent, and if so what a good replacement might be.
Eventually conceding defeat, just to see the back of all the "new updates are available, are you really sure you don't want to update?" popups, I reluctantly did.
Of course I was careful to untick any boxes that asked if it was OK to take over my browser and computer. But the new version went ahead and did so anyway!
After failing to uninstall it using the standard Windows uninstall, I've just spent 20 minutes picking through the Registry obliterating anything containing "Vuze", "Conduit", "ej-technologies", "uTorrent", and now thankfully all trace of it is gone.
(Presumably another dastardly malware technique is to install under all kinds of different names, sockies if you like, so that if one goes then it can hang on and maybe even reinstall itself.)
It seems as if after a stint on their best behaviour all these programs "go bad". I wonder if that is planned from the outset, or do they start out altruistic and are later taken over by mercenary scumbags and become victims of their own success?
Anyway, I wondered if anyone else had recently encountered problems with uTorrent, and if so what a good replacement might be.
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