ALERT! On Torrentsforall.com About Utorrent 1.7

[shadesofcolours]

hi

received this message in my email box on Torrentsforall.com:

[it has been determined that utorrent 1.7 and upwards has a bug that reports your stats incorrectly.

It has also been determined that it reports private info outside of the tracker.

we advise anyone using these versions to downgrade back to utorrent 1.6.1. you can download it by clicking HERE . Anybody using 1.7 or above does so at their own risk and we will not be given any user support.]

Can u please explain whats going on? =(

thank u

love Utorrent

[Firon]

1.7 has a download bug that was fixed for 1.7.1.

And it doesn't report private info. Tell them to provide proof that it does with a wireshark log. Also, if the IP they see is in the 239.x range, that's a local multicast (meaning it cannot go outside of your LAN) used to discover peers on the same LAN. It's called local peer discovery.

[shadesofcolours]

thanks firon. thats good news, cuz i actually did downgrade and i miss some of the features in 1.7. I love the new feature in bandwidth allocation where u can actually set each download/upload to the amount of kbs u want. its excellent! it helps with seeding and downloading, especially where torrents u've watched need more up space than the ones u havent watched yet.

[Firon]

If you can, try to direct the staff there to this post. Or tell them to join the IRC channel and talk to me (IRC link in the top menubar).

[shadesofcolours]

ok, no problem, i will do that.