Today morning brought us news of another application, which can create a similar controversy to the recently described by SuperFish. This time the confusion was caused by the program uTorrent – the popular P2P client, with which you are installing the Epic Scale, which without the knowledge of users use the computer to the dig Cryptocurrency.
The first reports from users concerned about the strange behavior of their computers when uTorrent client update appeared on the official forum of the program. Persons providing a thread complained about slow-down operating system and unwarranted high CPU usage. A brief investigation carried out by the forum members helped unmask the culprit quickly. Has proved that it is the application of Epic Scale, which installed the scripts into the users’ computers worldwide farm members dealing with digging kryptowaluty Litecoin. The controversial program caused high CPU usage which resulted in a slowdown of the system and an increase in power consumption by computers.
The Epic Scale hit on the user device with the update P2P uTorrent 3.4.2 in the partnership agreement between the creators of both applications. The biggest controversy, however, with the way the installation has been carried out. Many people involved in the discussions uTorrent wrote that at no stage P2P client update was not informed of an additional application, which was to be on their operating systems, which could suggest that Epic Scale was installed in silent mode (without informing the user ). Another opinion is the creator of the program uTorrent, who took already voted on this issue. They claim that the application is offered Epic Scale with uTorrent under the partnership agreement, however, users are informed of additional software added to the P2P client and can not consent to its installation, so you can not talk about the silent installation. The program should be easy to remove from your computer, but some users have been able to find it in the module Programs and Features is responsible for removing the software in Windows. For complete removal Epic Scale was necessary to also use the system registry cleaning programs, because it remained in the entries relating to Epic Scale.
Unfortunately, we can not confirm how Epic Scale hit the desktop, because in spite of some of the tests we have not on any of the computers Epic Scale install the application. All people who decide to install or update applications, however uTorrent sensitization to draw attention to the messages displayed by the installer. Their examples you can see on the screenshots included in this update. In most cases discourage their installation.
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