Regardless of whether or not µTorrent is to be trusted, this is not indicative. When an e-mail program needs to send a message, it connects to a typical port on the mail server (25). As the BitTorrent protocol can operate on any random port, sometimes you connect to someone via their port 25, and your firewall misinterprets this.

This should be avoided by enabling “bt.no_connect_to_services” in the advanced options, so long as 25 is listed as one of the ports.

i forwarded the port for the router and even turn of the antivirus and firewall but even affter that i m not getting the connection which results me download speed <10kbps but my upload is fine and is 25kbps

tell me how can i resolve the problem or how do i know which port is open for the incoming connection

BC was found to be tranferring up to 5GBytes/night to IP addresses located in P.R. China when its DHT was switched on.

None of this traffic was torrent related and did not appear in BC’s own stats.

Reports to the BC forum about this, after initial silence, led to, character assassination by a BC supporters club (aka “the management” under cover) and was finally followed by deletion of the thread when the actual chinese ip addresses (so people could block them) and traffic details were posted to the thread. This traffic was shown to be encrypted. BC management did nothing to remove this offending code by a year later. It was realized that others had reported this before but their reports were ignored/cleverly deflected.

After 7 days of hostile responses from BC supporters and posting of the chinese IP’s, the poster had his pc attacked for some 12hours from over 400+ (probably a bot DOS attack) ip addresses with billions of packets. With numerous attempts to hack various ports. The next day the posters ISP offically changed the (fixed) IP address of the poster and then blocked all traffic to it at their external firewall! The same day the thread was deleted. Attempts to post about the dos attack on the BC forum were blocked.

I use utorrent1.6.1, Azureus2.5.0.4 and don’t use BC at all.

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Is this the same thing as 1.7+ is doing, and if so, how is 1.6 any better? (alternatively, how is 1.7 any worse?)

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My firewall has caught it on severl occasions trying to “send e-mail”

No Idea what was in the message or where it was going but it was suspicious as hell. Thats why I’m going back to 1.6

In fact versions > 1.7 don’t even have the same developer doing it. It’s all handled now by Bittorrent Inc’s development. The original author (up to 1.6.1) is no longer even part of the project. ”

Saw that somewhere don’t know if its true.

So you aren’t using Windows either? ;)

Hoz – there are always going to be some people running trackers, who are out of their depth. It is also not that strange for people to just follow what some other tracker admin tells them, regardless of how true it is. Just look back and see how many trackers banned all versions of bitcomet, for the bug that affected one release (yet don’t ban az, which can be made to do that easily enough, or every other windows client which can effectively be manipulated to do the same thing).

From uTorrent FAQ:
“Is there a Linux or Mac version?

The OSX port is in progress. A Linux port is currently not planned for the future. ”

:(

I won’t be using it until there is some proof it’s safe.

Is it (still) safe?