3 Malware Bittorrent Clients that need to be avoided

P2P Security News : 3 Malware Bittorrent Clients that need to be avoided

Posted by Max on 2007/2/13 13:42:55 (1251 reads)

There are malware bittorrent clients that need to be avoided. If you love bittorrent, read this article. We all knew that eventually this kind of thing was going to happen, spyware as part of P2P is a pretty much so given thing, and Bittorrent was not going to be too far behind.Use a good standard Bittorrent client like Azureus, Bitcomet, or others.

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.

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