By Mark Wilson
 
Sometimes it's easy to be swayed by what's being written online. At the moment there are lots of stories creeping out about the iPad Pro and Apple Watch, none of which are founded in any fact whatsoever. Still, making stuff up, popping it in quotes and attributing it to an anonymous source is great fun, right?
It may be fun, but it's not really fair on the reader. Another story which popped up on my radar today was about uTorrent -- the popular BitTorrent client that's loved and hated in equal measure. Stories on Trusted Reviews, Engadget and the Verge suggest a Bitcoin mining tool called Epic Scale is installed without permission, and is a tricky blighter to remove. There's an easy way to find out; let's just install it.
 I've used uTorrent before and I know from experience that running through the installation is something of an exercise in 'spot the crapware'. It has been a while since I used it so I'm interested to see how things have changed.
 
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@Antus67 wrote:
I've used uTorrent before and I know from experience that running through the installation is something of an exercise in 'spot the crapware'. 

Yeap, you're right Anthony! I don't know how does it look like today, because for many reasons I've simply stopped using it.
 
BTW: Many thanks for sharing Jeff!

Getting unwanted programs installed with your intended app is a sign that you may have downloaded from a 3rd party site and not the source download site.  Most 3rd party sites will bundle or package the intended app with crapware or malware. So if you want uTorrent, go to uTorrent.com.  Not someplace like this:
 

 
So don't blame uTorrent unless you downloaded the package direct from their site.

Hello @ ,
 
I gave up using uTorrent years ago for the simple fact i got alot of crapware and issues not knowing what i was in for. these sites always sound too good to b true.
 
Thanks for the information!!;)

BitTorrent apologizes for Epic Scale Bitcoin mining software that users say was shadily installed ?Torrent torrent client, offers an uninstall guide

 
BitTorrent the maker of widely popular ?Torrent torrent client came under severe fire from all quarters for bundling the popular with cryptocurrency mining software with the ?Torrent torrent client.
 
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