uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner, Users Complain
Found on TorrentFreak on Friday, 06 March 2015
Many users of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent are complaining about it silently installing a cryptocurrency miner with a recent update. The Epic Scale tool, which slows down host computers, is reportedly being installed without consent and for some is particularly hard to remove.
uTorrent hasn't been a real option anymore since it was sold.