uTorrent Garbage App Turns Out To Be a Bitcoin Miner
The new update of the popular torrent client uTorrent is installing a garbage app EpicScale which, according to some virus scanners, is a Bitcoin mining software. The unwanted program was recently highlighted at uTorrent's complaint forum where a member informed about an autonomic installation, attached within the uTorrent's latest software build. "When I updated uTorrent to version 3.4.2 build 28913 (32-bit) this morning it silently installed a piece of software called EpicScale," the member remonstrated. "There was no information about this during installation and I did opt out of your....
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