How do you test if a download accelerator is really working? One way would be to download the same files twice. Once with the download accelerator enabled and once without. While this is surely not the most scientific method of testing it should provide enough data to come to a conclusion. The uTorrent Download Accelerator [...]
uTorrent 0.9 Beta For Mac
The first official uTorrent release for Apple Macintosh computers has been released by the developers. Version 0.9 Beta of uTorrent is available for download on the official website. The software is still a beta and the developers state that it might contain serious bugs but that they think that it is stable enough to be [...]
A New Vulnerability Discovered in μTorrent
As far as file-sharing protocols go, BitTorrent has emerged as one of the leading P2P technologies being used. μTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent apps around, largely because of its small size and ease of use. While μTorrent used to be an independent client, it has since been taken over by BitTorrent [...]
Azureus is no more
Back in 2007 the team that developed the popular Java Bittorrent client Azureus created the content distribution plattform Vuze and integrated it into Azureus. Today, after more than a year, to consolidate their position and start using the Vuze brand name exclusive. One could say that Azureus has become Vuze which tries to be more [...]
Software Updates Week 13 2008
Welcome to this week’s article that is listing all the interesting software updates of the last seven days. I’m trying my best to keep an overview of all the updates of the past week and collect them in that time to present you one article each Wednesday that contains a list of many major software [...]
uTorrent 1.7.7 fixes two remote crash bugs
A new stable version of uTorrent has been released two days ago that fixes two remote crash bugs that were affecting several version of the popular Bittorrent client. Users who have not updated yet are advised to update as soon as possible to get rid of the security vulnerability.
DOS Vulnerability in uTorrent and Bittorrent
A vulnerability in uTorrent and Bittorrent, which is using uTorrent’s core, was discovered today that effects the BitTorrent 6.0 client,
uTorrent 1.7.x, uTorrent 1.6.x and uTorrent 1.8-alpha-7834. The Denial of Service vulnerability is made possible by the way the clients handle user data.
