Beware: Malware Supported BitTorrent Clients

Written by Ernesto on February 09, 2007 

We already warned you about Bitroll and Torrent101. Now we would like to introduce TorrentQ, the youngest member of the malicious BitTorrent client family. All three clients are exactly the same, but it seems that the developers just keep renaming their clients, and trying to advertise them on as many torrent sites as they can.

malware torrentq torrent101 bitroll bittorrentThe owner of BTjunkie contacted us earlier this week. He told us that the developers of TorrentQ tried to advertise on his site through Adbrite, but he knows better of course.

Installing one of these clients will result in a hijacked browser and numerous popups. Most experienced BitTorrent users probably wont fall for these clients, and ignore catchy phrases like, “We use unique technology to increase the download speed of your torrents”.

However, people who are new to BitTorrent might accidentally download one of these clients, especially when sites like Torrentspy.com start to integrate ads for these clients (torrent101 in this case) into their design.

Luckily most BitTorrent site admins refuse to advertise these clients. The Pirate Bay said that they will ban these clients two weeks ago, mininova successfully banned these malicious clients, and BTjunkie wont let them advertise on their site either.

We’ll make a post every time that these guys rename their client, at least Google can warn some people then.

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29 Responses

1 Feb 10, 2007 at 01:50 by Johan

gaah…
stupid …
well at least advanced users will never get fooled :)
Information is power :P

2 Feb 10, 2007 at 06:17 by paperslug

Silly AdBrite MalWare is for Kids.
But Seriously This is starting to wear on my nerves. WWhy all the Malware suddenly and all so quickly?

3 Feb 10, 2007 at 11:57 by Petarded

Thanks for the info. But Ernesto, what kind of Torrent client do you use?

I’m using µTorrent now, works fine for me :P.

4 Feb 12, 2007 at 23:55 by Blotus M. Queef

µTorrent is the only client I use.
It is 110% bullshit free.

5 Feb 26, 2007 at 15:44 by Ernesto

[quote comment="47742"]Thanks for the info. But Ernesto, what kind of Torrent client do you use?

I’m using µTorrent now, works fine for me :P.[/quote]

I’m using µTorrent too

6 Mar 02, 2007 at 13:56 by tony

i too am using µTorrent, what a pupular client.

I don’t get the malware clients, doesn’t it cost them money to make all these websites then advertise.

how are they making money off of it?

7 Mar 04, 2007 at 04:50 by Han

wat do u do if u downloaded it?

8 Mar 06, 2007 at 23:29 by Doin

I am one of those new torrent users who has accidentally downloaded and run TorrentQ. I will never fall for one of these again.

It was advertised on torrentspy.

However since uninstalling it I can’t get rid of the Malware. Adaware can’t get rid of it.

What program can I use?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

9 Mar 08, 2007 at 09:07 by Matt F

I almost fell for the TorrentQ one. By some stroke of luck though the download link with broken so I was saved.

10 Mar 09, 2007 at 04:13 by Han

I know it’s really annoying!
please reply to my post and let me know if you figure out how to get rid of it.

11 Mar 12, 2007 at 16:11 by ck

i hate niggers

12 Mar 17, 2007 at 18:26 by Chris

hey i just downloaded torrentq its fucking bullshit and has a viruses, DO NOT DOWNLOAD TORRENTQ FROM THERE FAKE WEBSITE OR EVEN UTORRENT OR ANY OTHER TORRENT PROGRAM!!!

It contains the viruse when downloading the files from there server to your PC im lucky cause my freind has sent the viruse back to there server ;)

13 Mar 19, 2007 at 06:19 by intheknow

You are obviously retarded.

14 Mar 22, 2007 at 07:23 by v3

Yeah. Chris you have no idea what you are talking about. Your a fuckin dumbass.

This whole article is telling you not to download and install TorrentQ and what do you do but download and install TorrentQ. Idiot.

µTorrent is the only way to go.

15 Apr 11, 2007 at 17:29 by jack

I too downloaded BitTorrent for some reason. Not even really sure what a torrent is. (Stolen movie??) Anyway I can’t get rid of the ads and popups that come with it even though I’ve uninstalled it.

Help from anyone would be appreciated.

16 Apr 12, 2007 at 19:06 by Jeff

µTorrent works great. Its light weight – barely uses any resources.

I contacted TorrentSpy.com about removing a link to TorrentQ from their website. I am not sure if they are aware of it or not. Hopefully they respond to me or at least remove the link. I feel bad for those who download spam-filled software.

17 Apr 13, 2007 at 18:12 by joris

Hi,

I see everybody is using µTorrent, but i use bitcomet. Is µTorrent better?

18 Apr 14, 2007 at 18:17 by anonnymous

How do you rate the following:
1. bitTorrent Client
2. µTorrent
3. BitComet?

19 Apr 20, 2007 at 00:29 by A.Einstein

uTorrent is owned by BitTorrent (the company). BitTorrent has signed deals with the MPAA/RIAA. I’m looking for a new client now.

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/t12995-bittorent-and-torrentsome-ips-blocked-in-sourceforge-p2pbts-level-1-list.html

20 Apr 30, 2007 at 06:45 by Ted

I use ABC, works fine, no BS ad/malware, just striaght up click and go goodness.

21 May 03, 2007 at 22:25 by avkiller

hey. I almost fell for the torrentq malware 2 minutes ago. The link is broken, to let you know. Also, which version of utorrent is the best. I use both 1.11 and 1.4

22 May 04, 2007 at 00:42 by Ernesto

[quote comment="95972"]hey. I almost fell for the torrentq malware 2 minutes ago. The link is broken, to let you know. Also, which version of utorrent is the best. I use both 1.11 and 1.4[/quote]

Just go to utorrent.com and download the latest version.

23 May 04, 2007 at 20:58 by Peter

Using torrents is obviously not correct, but check for instance Fullrelease.com!
Under the assumtion they have “your” torrent, you can become member and then it becomes apparent they use the same method as other torrent sites, so one has to pay for nothing. It is same as e.g. Torrentpond, but only after payment. Contact of course does not work!

24 May 31, 2007 at 01:54 by eaglewtchr

I use Azureus. adware/malware free.. It’s a Java based P2P application and You can purchase the Azureus Turbo Accelerator that actually works and very well at that. I can double or triple my download speed. Check thoes out..

Just my 2 scents.. :)

25 Aug 27, 2007 at 16:50 by Robert Muir

When I was looking for a way to uninstall Torrent Q I was kept being referred to this website.

Regrettably, the only information that I was being supplied with in this forum area was with regard to installing another program of a similar variety known as U Torrent.

It was only then after being directed to this site on numerous occasions that I then realized that I had inadvertently installed Torrent Q when I installed the torrent download program I was using at the time, which was Bit Comet V.90.

So all that I had to do was go to the control panel and then to the add remove program and uninstall Bit Comet, and all would have been apples as they say.

After having downloaded U Torrent I then simply installed that program, and then did a restart and there did not appear to be any further difficulties with Adware, at least for the time being.

Here I was spending hours and hours going through the registry, etc, etc trying to find out just where this dam Adware Torrent Q was located when the answer was staring me right in the face all along.

I wish some one would have steered me in the right direction with your previous postings, it would have saved me a great deal of time and anguish trying to work out how to remove Torrent Q, in the first place.

I have run an antispyware program and there does not appear to be any type of malicious adware in the program that I have just installed , U Torrent.

26 Sep 10, 2007 at 22:22 by papa

Xoftspy spotted and deleted it for me

27 Sep 20, 2007 at 19:39 by vartig

keep sending trojan horses… thank you very much…

28 Jan 02, 2008 at 03:50 by Web-kat

Nice, lots of good info -accept for that Chris character, is that for real? Simply amazing, or my all time fav — unbelievable.

29 Jan 20, 2008 at 00:45 by neo

you can use a program called threatfire to help block that kinda stuff… I haven’t tested if it works against those clients, but instead of using signatures to detect malware, it just monitors the behavior of it so it can get rid of even the newer threats… Just install it along side whatever AV program you already have. http://www.threatfire.com

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