Beware: Malware Supported BitTorrent Clients
Written by Ernesto on February 09, 2007We 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.
The 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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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.
Xoftspy spotted and deleted it for me
keep sending trojan horses… thank you very much…
Nice, lots of good info -accept for that Chris character, is that for real? Simply amazing, or my all time fav — unbelievable.
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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