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Breaking News: Bitcoin Hits ATH Of $112,000, Expert Predicts Rally Is Just Beginning

uTorrent Garbage App Turns Out To Be a Bitcoin Miner

Yashu Gola
Yashu Gola
4 years ago
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The new update of the popular torrent client uTorrent is installing a garbage app EpicScale which, according to some virus scanners, is a Bitcoin mining software.

u torrent Bitcoin mining malware report

The unwanted program was recently highlighted at uTorrent’s complaint forum where a member informed about an autonomic installation, attached within the uTorrent’s latest software build. “When I updated uTorrent to version 3.4.2 build 28913 (32-bit) this morning it silently installed a piece of software called EpicScale,” the member remonstrated. “There was no information about this during installation and I did opt out of your other bundled software.”

As we researched to find the whereabouts of EpicScale, we found that this program uses the same hash functions — SHA256 and MD5 — that are used by Bitcoin miners to solve blocks. A scan on multiple antivirus programs, including Kaspersky and Norman, also categorized EpicScale to be a Bitcoin miner; not a virus though.

It simply means that if you install the aforementioned uTorrent update, the chances of your CPU or GPU consuming more power would increase. According to the same complainant, you might see an increased CPU load once it is idle, all credits to EpicScale.

What’s further troubling is that that you cannot uninstall this application by following the usual Uninstall Procedure on Window machines. A representative of EpicScale Inc., named Alexander, however ensured that the usual procedure will remove their application from the computer. He also cleared that the program is just for some “advanced research” while reaching to the community.

“How do you justify the silent (unrequested) installation and the (again, silent) inclusion of a cryptocurrency miner ‘when waiting for additional research jobs’,” questioned one of the respondents.

“You cannot be surprised that people object to these two points and regard the software as a virus as a consequence.”

Moral of the story: Get a third party application to remove EpicScale from your computer. People are recommending Free Fixer.

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Yashu Gola is a Mumbai-based finance journalist. He is profoundly active in the bitcoin space since 2014 – and has contributed to several cryptocurrency media outlets, including NewsBTC, FxDailyReport, Bitcoinist, and CCN.

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Academically, Yashu holds a bachelor's in information technology, with majors in data structures and C++ programming language. He has also won the 'Atulya Award' for his efforts towards raising $100,000 for an India-based farming project.

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Comments 4

  1. Commenter says:
    10 years ago

    That app becomes more bloated every year

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  2. Turbo Lover says:
    10 years ago

    bye bye utorrent, switched to qbittorrent

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  3. ?Legendary Bruce Lee Roy says:
    10 years ago

    How about I’m not surprised?

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  4. Hayden says:
    10 years ago

    It is definately not worth having it on your pc. My virus scanner completely block the utorrent and and started identifying it as a trojan all of a sudden my firewall went crazy as well blocking multiple attempts to connect to my pc with a duplicated ip on my network. I removed utorrent from my pc thinking some sort of virus came through some download but that I went to download utorrent from their own website smae thing happened as soon as I try to download utorrent my antivirus blocked it stating it a trojan. So nome more utorrent stay away from it. I have had same story on 2 different machines one running Win 7 and one WIn 8.

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  1. Commenter says:
    10 years ago

    That app becomes more bloated every year

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  2. Turbo Lover says:
    10 years ago

    bye bye utorrent, switched to qbittorrent

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  3. ?Legendary Bruce Lee Roy says:
    10 years ago

    How about I’m not surprised?

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  4. Hayden says:
    10 years ago

    It is definately not worth having it on your pc. My virus scanner completely block the utorrent and and started identifying it as a trojan all of a sudden my firewall went crazy as well blocking multiple attempts to connect to my pc with a duplicated ip on my network. I removed utorrent from my pc thinking some sort of virus came through some download but that I went to download utorrent from their own website smae thing happened as soon as I try to download utorrent my antivirus blocked it stating it a trojan. So nome more utorrent stay away from it. I have had same story on 2 different machines one running Win 7 and one WIn 8.

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