Comments on: A New Vulnerability Discovered in μTorrent

By: BillyG

BillyG — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:16:42 +0000

@dianoga: exactly many files named xxx.001, xxx.002, etc. Guess I know now, thx. Sure seems like a lot of work, damn I should’ve just loaded that ol’ VCR!

By: garbanzo

garbanzo — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:21:44 +0000

there still remains an inherent and debilitating vulnerability that will never be fixed – uTorrent is a torrent client! i stopped using torrents a long time ago, it’s just too easy for people to see exactly what you are downloading.

rapidshare forever!

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» Scoperta una nuova vulnerabilità in μTorrent - Uploads Blog.com — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:26:27 +0000

[...] e alla sua facilità d’uso, il client preferito da molti utenti. Proprio in tale client è stata recentemente scoperta una grave vulnerabilità collegata ai file .torrent che, tramite ad alcune modifiche [...]

By: AndyJ

AndyJ — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:12:38 +0000

I use an old version of uTorrent. It does the job for me so i don’t feek the need to upgrade to a new version.

By: dianoga

dianoga — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:12:36 +0000

BillyG, I don’t know what files you downloaded, but in your case, you probably have to use winrar or another archiver to extract the video or whatever is in those 50+ files. Do they have the extension .rar or .001+? If so, you need to extract them before you can play them in a media player.

By: BillyG

BillyG — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:28:13 +0000

Ease of use? I dl’d my first torrent this week, the opening ceremony of the Olympics, but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to view it after it created a folder with 50+ files for me.

I tried VLC, MPC, WMP, and Miro – nothing worked. It was prolly just my green ass, but in the end, I just deleted the folder and screamed at myself for being too lazy to load the VCR that night before heading out to a 70’s party. And yea, I uninstalled utorrent too – although it prolly isn’t their fault…

By: unruled

unruled — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:37:49 +0000

I agree with Rarst… I don’t think one ought to be this suspicious about it.

As for myself, on private bittorent sites, they often ban clients (or client versions) which are deemed insecure or unreliable. Hence, yes, I have already upgraded to 1.8(11813)

By: darkkosmos

darkkosmos — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:47:05 +0000

I would if only I figured out how to upgrade on debian servers -.-. Well I’m getting a ubuntu or windows server next!! As for my laptop yes since the new features are free anyway (I don’t have it though).

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:09:55 +0000

>All users are requested to download μTorrent 1.8 Release Candidate 7, which has been patched to fix this problem.

There is final 1.8 release out, not much sense in downloading RC7. :)

>Would you upgrade to the newest version of μTorrent?

I upgrade to latest, they simplified RSS downloading (not perfect still… but big improvement) and some local trackers I visit mostly ban old versions of clients to escape mess with supporting them.

>I can almost bet that the new owners of utorrent have implanted a backdoor so they can easily monitor what you download and so on to better make a case against you in the future.

Yeah, sure and they are hiding truth about aliens as well. :)

By: Boss

Boss — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:34:52 +0000

I can almost bet that the new owners of utorrent have implanted a backdoor so they can easily monitor what you download and so on to better make a case against you in the future.