doughnut Posted December 31, 2005 Report Share Posted December 31, 2005 Can I safely rename utorrent.exe to another name so that it will be more difficult to discover in windows process manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL)? Of course I would also hide it using bosskey and then it would be quite difficult to reveal (at least I hope). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redleer Posted December 31, 2005 Report Share Posted December 31, 2005 you havent tryed to do that before asking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted December 31, 2005 Report Share Posted December 31, 2005 I believe you can rename utorrent.exe to anything you wish (like svchost.exe) and it'll still work properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbad0n Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 How would renaming the executable affect updating? Especially if you setup to check automatically for updates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 The updater will correctly rename the new file to match the current name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbad0n Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 No problem =] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 µTorrent overwrites itself when updating, which means that the .exe doesn't matter at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightshifted Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 If you're leery of updaters and just download the new .exe, you'll have to delete the old one and rename the new one manually ... so wait until the cat's away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 ..what? Why wouldn't you want to use the autoupdate? You like using an old version or something? Don't get it.. :|edit: nightshifted, you forgot BitLord in your signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 BitLord == BitComet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightshifted Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 Splintax: I am leery of auto-updaters. It always works better for me to get the new version. For a program that comes as a standalone .exe and doesn't need an installer, there's even less need for an auto-updater.And Firon's right about the other thing: any blanket statement about all releases of BitComet includes BitLord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 You know, I think it would be safer to use the auto-updater than manually download it. In the unlikely event that the website were hijacked, the auto-updater would refuse to update because the new modified exes would fail the RSA check (wrong or missing RSA digital signature). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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