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Like Deluge, Transmission can run as a daemon on another system. Transmission uses its own libTransmission backend. We recommend staying away from Transmission entirely until the project cleans up its act. It suggests there’s something seriously wrong with the Transmisison project’s security. That’s two major compromises in five months, which is practically unheard of.

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In August 2016, Transmission’s servers were again compromised and the official Mac version of Transmission contained a different type of malware. In March 2016, Transmission’s servers were compromised and the official Mac version of Transmission contained ransomware. Warning: Since the original writing of this article, Transmission has had some serious security problems. The official version doesn’t support Windows, but the Transmission-Qt Win project is an “unofficial Windows build of Transmission-Qt” with various tweaks, additions, and modifications to work better on Windows. In fact, it’s installed by default on Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions. Transmission isn’t as popular on Windows, mostly known as a client for macOS and Linux. Transmission: a Minimal Client Overcome by Security Issues But Deluge will function like a normal desktop application by default. This means you could run Deluge on a remote system–perhaps a headless server–and control it via Deluge on your desktop. It starts off as a more minimal client, and you have to add the features you want through the plug-ins–like RSS support, for example.ĭeluge is built with a client-server architecture–the Deluge client can run as a daemon or service in the background, while the Deluge user interface can connect to that background service. Instead of being a feature-filled client, like qBittorrent, Deluge relies on a plug-in system to get you the advanced features you want.

RELATED: What Is the New Copyright Alert System, and How Does it Affect You? But, while qBittorrent generally follows uTorrent, Deluge has a few of its own ideas. It’s available for Windows as well as Linux, macOS, FreeBSD–even Haiku and OS/2! Deluge: a Plug-In Based Client You Can Customizeĭeluge is another open-source, cross-platform BitTorrent client. Overall, Deluge and qBittorrent are fairly similar and have many of the same features.

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The application includes an integrated torrent search engine, BitTorrent extensions like DHT and peer exchange, a web interface for remote control, priority and scheduling features, RSS downloading support, IP filtering, and many more features. The developers are taking a middle path–not cramming every possible feature in, but also avoiding the minimal design of applications like Transmission. If you cannot find it, you might be safe from this bug.Īfter applying the setting, you should restart the client.QBitTorrent strives to offer the features most users will want while using as little CPU and memory as possible.

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Some older uTorrent versions might not have this option. to prevent this, I strongly recommend that all uTorrent users disable the 'net.discoverable' setting.

Among other things, this bug allows for crashing of uTorrent, and stealing of torrents. (This applies to both uTorrent web and the WebUI inside 'normal' versions of uTorrent)Įven if you have the WebUI disabled, there is another security bug that can be exploited.

Because of this, I strongly recommend that all users currently using the uTorrent webUI, disable it for the time being.

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The full bug report can be found here: More information can be found here: īasically, this security hole allows an attacker to remotely get access to your uTorrent via the WebUI, and use that for malicious activities, like downloading viruses to your computer. Quote Recently, two security bugs were found in uTorrent in how it sets up its web interface (affecting both uTorrent Web and uTorrent Classic).