MrDowntown Posted June 16, 2016 Report Share Posted June 16, 2016 I was a long time user of an earlier version of utorrent. I decided to download it again and see what was out there. I had little luck finding a working torrent site like there used to be for starters, they all just send me on a wild goose chase loading a different site when I click a link, but I've browsed here enough today to realize that you cannot suppot that, and I understand why. It's still disappointing. What actually brought me here is that I have not actually downloaded anything successfully, and have no down streams, but my computer was lagging like I was actively down/uploading... I opened my taskbar and noticed that utorrent was running (I forgot to disable run on startup, I can handle fixing that). Much to my vexation I discovered that utorrent was downloading, and seeding files that I did not opt to download or upload, like the client decided to use my bandwidth without my permission. I have no problem with seeding anything that I have downloaded after downloading it, but I will not be a party to my computer automatically downloading files that I did not choose to download, and distributing them to other computers. I stopped the download, and will be disabling utorrent until I get an answer to this query. Is it some new feature within utorrent that automatically makes your client a seeder? If so, I will be deleting utorrent, and no longer using it in the future. If not, then I have some investigating to do on my computer to discover how and why this happened. I want to check with the community before I start tearing my file system apart looking for problems. Thanks in advance. Attached is what I found utorrent down/uploading without my authority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted June 16, 2016 Report Share Posted June 16, 2016 That file isn't actually seeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDowntown Posted June 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2016 The screenshot does not show the transfer rates because I had already told it to stop as soon as I discovered it. Why were all the numbers actively moving when I opened the client, and why did it say seeding where is says finished? I am not a first time user. Just a first time user on this computer. It was transferring data when I expanded the client, and I have never seen those files before, or requested a download of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDowntown Posted June 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2016 I'm not sure why that double posted. Maybe using my back button? It was unintentional. I might as well try to make use of the space anyhow. Is there any way to turn the volume down on the advertisements? I am trying to listen to music, and all of the sudden I have a commercial blasting through my external speakers on top of my music. That is completely obnoxious, and unnecessary. The more I tinker with the new utorrent, the less I want to use it. --------------------------------------- I was leery about opening anything without knowing where it came from. I have discovered where it came from. It is part of the bittorrent bundle that I opted to install when I did the utorrent installer package. It seems it downloaded it via the client, and seeded it. I managed to answer my first question myself, but I am still not seeing any volume control for the ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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