I downloaded BitTorrent and it downloaded “anti virus software” with it??

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/JackFJN on 2024-09-04 02:49:26.

I downloaded BitTorrent yesterday, and today I found that it also installed “RAV Endpoint Protection” and “Safer Web.” I looked it up and apparently other people had a similar experience with uTorrent. Is this normal? I just uninstalled them all, am I gonna be ok?

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The general consensus is that the last good version of uTorrent was 2.2.1 and newer versions should be ignored. They sold out and started putting ads and other bloat into their software after that. That said, 2.2.1 is way out of date and probably shouldn't be used either.

You can try qBittorrent, which is open source. It also has the option to only download while connected to a VPN.

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