yucca-87-93 Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 Hi,I am using the uTorrent for Macs. Under Preferences, I've set the Scheduler to start torrenting from 2am to 8am daily. Previously it used to stop around the time I set (it used to run about 5 to 10 mins beyond the set time), using the time on my laptop as the reference point.This morning, I observed something very odd - it was working and downloading a couple of active files well past the 8am time limit. It was 8:50am. I shut down uTorrent immediately.Is this indicative of a fault with the software, or is it a sign of an intrusion? In either case, or perhaps w.r.t. other possible cause(s), appreciate if you can advise and guide me on the fix to this.Thanks,Yucca-87-93 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 Are any jobs 'force started'?What Version?And screen shot of the scheduler settings is required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucca-87-93 Posted July 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 Hi,I'm not sure how to see whether any jobs 'force started'. When the uTorrent ran past its time, I just saw that the download speed of one active file download to be in the range of 60kb/s.The version of uTorrent installed is 1.8.4. I took a screen shot of the Scheduler's time settings and saved it as a *.tiff file. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to attach that image here using the img tag. Please guide me here. Thanks,Yucca-87-93 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucca-87-93 Posted July 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 Just to add:The Scheduler is simple enough to describe. I switched it on from 0200 to 0800 to full speed (dark green) from Monday through to Sunday. The rest of the cells are switched off, and therefore are grey in colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=730788#p730788Most browsers cannot display TIFF files, use png or jpeg format.And force started will have a [F] flag in the job status Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucca-87-93 Posted July 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 Hi, here is the image of the Scheduler: I'd need to check if there was/is a [F] flag in the job status of the active downloaded files. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucca-87-93 Posted July 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 Just testing to see if this works instead: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucca-87-93 Posted July 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Hi ciaobaby,Interestingly, I just came across that I had set the Outgoing Encryption under the Bit Torrent tab in Preferences to Force. Is this related in part to the forced starting you were referring to? Regardsyucca-87-93 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucca-87-93 Posted July 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 Hi,Other than the [F} job status, what other possible indications are there that there may be an intrusion?Thanks, yucca-87-93 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 9, 2013 Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 [F] job status means the job is force started and will NOT follow scheduler rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucca-87-93 Posted July 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 Hi DreadWingKnight,OK, I will check the job status to see if it is forced when I leave the torrent on overnight. A few more questions came to mind:- how ELSE, other than the [F] job status, can I see if there is an intrusion or not?- does the Scheduler run on my laptop's internal clock, or does it follow uTorrent's (US?) clock? I'm in the China/ SIngapore time zone and we do not have daylight saving time considerations here. Incidentally, I also noticed that some of the recent completed files were added on during times (local) which I did not switch on uTorrent. But this seems to have happened only recently. Previously, it seemed that the times my files were completed and added on coincided with the local time when I left uTorrent on. - will the uTorrent premium version afford better security protection against these (suspected) intrusions/ hack-ins? Regardsyucca-87-93 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 The [F] status is NOTHING AT ALL to do with an 'intrusion' uTorrent picks up the current time from the system clock when the client starts up, so if the system clock is NOT at 'local' time you can forget any scheduling that needs to coincide with the real world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucca-87-93 Posted July 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 OK, noted. So, will the uTorrent premium version afford better security protection? Do you think what I am seeing are intrusions/ hack-ins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 So, will the uTorrent premium version afford better security protection?It's built on exactly the same core code as uTorrent 3+ / BitTorrent 6+ so why would it? The extras in Plus are 'virus' scanning of the payload and codecs for file format conversion.Do you think what I am seeing are intrusions/ hack-ins?Most definitely and emphatically NO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucca-87-93 Posted July 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Thanks ciaobaby, I appreciate your responses.So if those were not intrusions or hack-ins, do you have any idea why uTorrent would run over the time limit set in the Scheduler, other than a [F} status? I didn't set it, or even knew about it, till now. Thanks again,yucca-87-93 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Without knowing the values of ALL of your bandwith and queue settings including any individual job overrides, it is impossible to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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