p2pDude Posted January 24, 2022 Report Share Posted January 24, 2022 Hi, I've searched around for this issue and not found any suitable solutions. My knowledge on security is lacking and I'm hesitant at moving forward. I was using utorrent for a good while. I had the '...sharing data with partners...' msg appear when I opened up uTorrent to download/share. However, I just clicked off this and the program seemed to work normally. So I ignored this message. Anyway, it seems Microsoft Defender Antivirus flags 'PUATorrent:Win32/uTorrent' and won't let me proceed from there. I believe I have to make an exception the firewall for this instance of uTorrent. Is this a good idea? Am I opening 'an unlocked door' to my computer by making this exception? I thought uTorrent has security within the program to protect against worms or malware etc. Please advise, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SergeyQA Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 You should not open any ports manually. All the ports used by utorrent are opened automatically. The issue Related to defender - PUATorrent:Win32/uTorrent - windows considering torrenting as "bad" activity, so they are marking torrent clients (not utorrent only) by that flag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p2pDude Posted January 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 OK, I managed to make an exception in Defender for this. Which version of uTorrent should I install? The most recent one I used had a message about 'sharing data with partners'? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p2pDude Posted January 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 OK, I installed the latest version of uTorrent (3.55). It seems to have installed correctly but is showing strange behaviour. I keep deleting torrents from the download section of the UI but they keep coming back when I restart.(edit, they're now gone but it took several restarts. The old files seemed to delete after I downloaded a new file) Download speeds for files is variable. Like in the previous version I had, I get the strange advertising: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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