janimal Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Hi, My uTorrent installation has always worked perfectly (and still does). I have XP Pro 64 on a Quad core intel, 4gb RAM. I was attempting to download Vue 6 from here http://www.e-onsoftware.com/try/vue_6_ple/ after registering for the software they send a mail pointing to this torrent file : http://ple.e-onsoftware.com/Vue6PLEWin.zip.torrent When I attempt to download this torrent the follwoing occurs. (No other torrents are uploading or downloading) The torrent shows 1 seeder and about 3 or 4 leeches and gives a dl rate of about 30 -40 KB/s However the status bar climbs right up to maximum bw - 950KB/s despite my dl bandwidth being set to a 250 KB/s limit. If I stop the torrent - the DL speed stays maxed out. Checking the network in Task manager I can confirm that it is actually still downloading something at full speed. I let it continue to do this for a while and after a short time uTorrent gave the error "Could not allocate memory for 3.9gb" If I close uTorrent (before encountering the previous error) and then check the task manager, the uTorrent client is still in memory and memory usage is rapidly climbing. I have confirmed that for all other torrents I have, there is no problem. Is this a maliciously crafted torrent trying to exploit some flaw or not? If it is malicious I will obviously contact e-on Software.Thanks,Janimal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 They didn't make the torrent properly. They tried to have the zip as the announce url. Their fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janimal Posted November 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Thanks Dread - I knew it wold be their fault, just wanted to check it wasn't by evil intention. Thanks,Janimal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Don't know if it was malicious or not, but it probably wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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