Needing reassurance that uTorrent won't be patched like BitComet...

[zoso]

I was wanting to know if there are any safeguards in place to prevent uTorrent having the same fate as BitComet i.e. patches developed to falsify upload stats and then the client is banned - it would be terrible to see uTorrent go the same way because of a few scheming idiots...

[Dynamite]

Rest assured that nothing bad will happen to our beloved µtorrent! Under ludde's excellent development non of this will happen! But i guess you should wait for Firon's or Ludde's reply

[chaosblade]

Lets say its alot more work to make some sort of patch\hack for it then other clients. But then again, We cant promise you that people wont do anything possible to get this. Nothing is totally secure on the internet.

Cheating trackers is stupidly easy in ANY client. You can just capture the HTTP packets and alter them, Thats true for EVERY http packet in your system - emule, web browser, antivirus update, whatever.

Cheating peers isnt as easy, and uTorrent is probably harder to fool considering its closed-source and compressed so people cant uncompress it directly.

[Firon]

Everything is possible. It's impossible to prevent it, and all it takes is one person to do it and release a patch.

Anyway, BitComet got banned because the actual client cheats, not because it was patched to cheat.

[zoso]

Guys - thanks ever such a lot for your replies.

My speeds have been lower since using this client but now I've learned that they were higher before using BitComet for reasons of dishonesty, I'm very happy - keep up the good work, and a merry Christmas to you all!

[Firon]

Tweak your settings a bit and maybe you can get closer to those speeds. Feel free to make a thread in Speed Problems, if you'd like.

Merry Christmas!

[Inf]

...its closed-source and compressed...

a stupid WriteProcessMemory runtime patch replacing some strings will probably work in the same nasty way the bc one does :-(

[Firon]

There's a lot of ways to do it I'm sure, but it stops the average idiot with a hex editor at least.

[Inf]

No it doesn't. Winhex can edit a process memory. This would be one time only, but would have the same effect as hexediting the uncompressed exe.

[Firon]

The average idiot doesn't have a hex editor that can edit the process memory.

[Keithtris]

I'm an average idiot and I don't have one

Whatever one of those scary-sounding things is.

[Inf]

I am an average idiot either, and i do have one. And also some generic game cheaters utilities to help finding some intresting variables in RAM. And also a soft-ice to set a memory bp on that variable... etc etc

So, can an average idiot do some nasty stuff wtih uTorrent ? I assume that i can, and if i can do it, everyone can :-)

[Ultima]

You really don't sound like the average idiot then, since average idiot just points, clicks, and types on a browser/mail client/word processor =P

[BlackLion]

any average idiot that has the tools you have probably can but the average idiot that has those tools may not have the necessary training to use them and you do....so we are back to square one Inf

[splintax]

the average idiot doesn't patch clients...

there are a number of people who actually have decent programming skills and despise private trackers and for this reason make patches like this to falsify stats..

i imagine it is more difficult to do this to µT due to the compression, but it is certainly not impossible.