It would be more helpful if you told us exactly what the security problems amount to. I have used it for 15 years and have never had any issues.
It's very clear if you follow the link.
To be fair, that content is a bit technical. That said, you can all bury your heads in the sand and say it is working fine for you, but it simply is a security issue for you. Will you be/have you been impacted? No idea, but do you want to take that chance when there are alternatives that have been recommended by others in the community? Use some logic here. You are using a version that is 12 years old, a product that exposes you and your computer to the internet. Why do you want to take that chance?
Well said. I'm really frustrated with the people in this thread burying their heads in the sand.
Yes, the link I posted is technical, but I was trying to show the accumulation of CVEs reported over the years rather than post a few isolated articles. If people want the non-technical descriptions, just search for "utorrent vulnerability" and read the dozens of articles that pop up. Most of those articles are a few years old now, but you raise an excellent point that people are advocating use of a 12-year old version of software, which is highly dangerous even if there weren't these serious reported vulnerabilities. And torrenting is somewhat risky to start with. You need to open a special port on your computer, allow a firewall exception, and trust that your torrent software isn't going to let anything stray outside of the boundaries that have been set.
Well, older versions of uTorrent have been proven to
not be safe. I don't know what more you need to hear in order to stop using it.
Anyone that responds to this with "yeah, but I'm really careful" - You may actually just be lucky. Don't complain here when you get infected with something nasty. Use up-to-date, and preferably open-source software.
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