Comments on: uTorrent Browser Toolbar Mystery Causes Confusion

By: Zod

Zod — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 21:00:01 +0000

@ 84
I’m inclined to think this was it. I’m getting really sick of all this bundled bullshit that tells you “We’re going to give you this amazing app that will do everything for you including your dishes!”
Me: No thank you.
“Are you sure you wouldn’t like this awesome software?”
Me: No, I don’t want your crapware.
“Maybe you should reconsider. This really is an amazing opportunity!”
Me: WTF?! Just give me the GD software that I wanted in the first place that’s probably only 10% of the file I DL’d in the first place!!
“Thank you. Please ignore the next 20 minutes of HDD activity as this is completely normal and we’re not installing all kinds of useless bullshit on your pc to make a buck. Honest. You can trust us. Would we lie to you? ……………….. You wouldn’t happen to have any credit cards lying around would you?”

By: Zod

Zod — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:22:17 +0000

I just did this upgrade 10 minutes ago to 2.2 and I’m absolutely POSITIVE I unchecked all boxes and it still installed the utorrent toolbar and the conduit software. Conduit DOES NOT show up in the add/remove programs and that’s usually the first red flag for malware/spyware. Now I’m going through my browsers removing these addons and will likely have to do a spyware scan as I doubt that will truly remove Conduit. I’m more inclined to blame this on them than uTorrent as uT has traditionally been an upstanding app that doesn’t pull this type of bullshit.

By: app

app — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:11:39 +0000

utorrent is tracker bit-torrent users

bit-torrent inc is in partnership with MPAA

take my advice remove utorrent

and go with alternative torrent client such as xunlei which also enables you to stream torrents

xunlei has 340 million users

do not trust utorrent the developer are azzzholes and utorrent is not open source code !

By: dun dun dun

dun dun dun — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:05:14 +0000

create archive copies of pristine copies of older versions, coz you just never know what will happen in the future. Where can I get the modded 1.8.3 version btw?

By: hoddi1

hoddi1 — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:34:18 +0000

Ha Ha Sorry I Could Not help Myself

In Vista Go To “TOOLS”, “ADD-ONS” Click Disable On What’s Bothering You.
Good Luck…

By: Roger30001

Roger30001 — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:07:06 +0000

It happen to me after i said yes but its easy to remove so no big deal. Trying to get people to share a new feature that we shoulsd all use… if one hundred peeps communicates one does books one does movies one does games you hear me. We would have to not download or seed so much just share.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:49:49 +0000

To the people saying “durrrrrrrHURRRR JUST UNCHECK TEH BOXEZ”
try reading the article:

“Another group of users did get the popup, but when they chose not to install the toolbar, the software was installed on their computers nonetheless.”

Be less of an ass when you don’t know what you’re talking about.

By: Quasit

Quasit — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:04:58 +0000

“Time to switch to deluge”

Right.
It doesn’t even have a RSS downloader built in. Relying on a third party plugin that may or may not work in the future is crap.
The deluge programmers are noobs anyway. They won’t bother fixing so you can select the language in the program/during setup. It’s always been like that. Just because I have the “Format” (time/date) set to Swedish in Win7 doesn’t mean I want all programs in Swedish. Instead of _fixing it_ they come with idiot solutions, a common theme of an open source programmer IMO.

By: TheSteelGeneral

TheSteelGeneral — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:26:11 +0000

@12 do we really have options?
who’s to say they don’t pull some crap even if the toolballs appears to be uninstalling, but are leaving behind some spyware?
The only thing that really works is imaging your OS and Program Files partition, and wipe the infected drive.

@14, by Rekrul: Goes to show what kinda lame excuses these guys come up with.

Listen, I get that they wanna get paid, but the sneaky way in which they do it makes me distrust them fully, utterly and completely. I’m not upgrading anytime soon.

uTorrent is the single most bestest app in the world, better than notepad, even.
Because it has the smallest footprint of ALL my apps, even Notepad takes longer to start, for example.
And because it has so much real power! Thru this, I’ve been able not only to watch all present tv-shows, just minutes after they aired, I also watched very old and unpopular old shows like the Time Tunnel 60s and 2004 version, Little House on the prairie, Star Trek etc

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