uTorrent 2 = spyware ?

[zakazak]

Today I found an interesting thread in a private trackers forum which says that utorrent (after 1.6.1) started to work together with a lot of different companies and even without adding any torrent it trys to make a lof connections (which is true.. my firewall is poping every 5 minutes).

Until now i always used 1.6.1 but today i downloaded 2.2.1 (build 25534) and I wonder if it is save?

thanks

[anon]

even without adding any torrent it trys to make a lof connections (which is true.. my firewall is poping every 5 minutes).

DHT enabled? Ran torrents on the same IP and port recently?

Until now i always used 1.6.1 but today i downloaded 2.2.1 (build 25534) and I wonder if it is save?

Who knows. I try to remove all the crap in my uTorrent packs. Try the Original mod if you're paranoid.

[zakazak]

dht is disabled
mhh i ran one test rorrent (downloaded 1 mb) but then deleted it.

@edit: is there a chance that you could tell me how i can remove the "home-calling" myself? or just tell me the IP's so i can block them?

thanks

[anon]

@edit: is there a chance that you could tell me how i can remove the "home-calling" myself? or just tell me the IP's so i can block them?

thanks

uTorrent 1.7.2 secure Mod - Leecher Mods -

Then you look for ".com", ".php" and "http://" in the executable and remove anything odd.

[zakazak]

okay so basically i unpack utorrent 2.2.1.exe , open it with a hex editor, edit out all the http,php,.com and some other IP's i may find , then pack it again with UPX ?
e.g. instead of all the ip's/domains i will simply replace them with localhost / 127.0.0.1 ?

Private trackers won't notice the changes i made to utorrent and report me as cheater?

thanks :)

[anon]

e.g. instead of all the ip's/domains i will simply replace them with localhost / 127.0.0.1 ?

Just fill them with NUL bytes (00).

Private trackers won't notice the changes i made to utorrent and report me as cheater?

I don't think I'd be recommending this and using it in my mods if that was the case.

[zakazak]

alright, thanks !

i just worked a bit on it and here is what i made out of it:

http://files.bestmail.ws/custom-utorrent.zip

i also removed the download of webui.zip as i already have it anyway.
maybe you could take a look to see if i missed smth ? :S

also:
What is this link for ? http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
i removed that too from utorrent.exe

thanks

[anon]

i just worked a bit on it and here is what i made out of it:

http://files.bestmail.ws/custom-utorrent.zip

i also removed the download of webui.zip as i already have it anyway.
maybe you could take a look to see if i missed smth ? :S

It looks good.

also:
What is this link for ? http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
i removed that too from utorrent.exe

I don't know. It may be part of the Web UI.

[zakazak]

hmm web ui works fine... guess i will leave it out of my utorrent.exe then..

thanks a lot for helping !

@edit: whats the best upx.exe paramter when compressing it now (for speed & performance when running that file 24/7)? should i go for -1 or -9 ?

[anon]

Maybe you don't know this already (many people don't, despite it being on the rules), but that little button which says "Thanks" below my posts doesn't bite...

[zakazak]

done !

and for the compression: with --ultra brute i got it to 390kb.. but is the smallest file size also the best in terms of speed?

[anon]

No, actually more compression equals slower speed. The impact should only affect the decompression phase and be non-existent or neglibible on modern hardware, though.

Bear in mind that packing executables and libraries may make their associated programs consume more memory - usually Windows only loads the parts of them it needs, but it can't do so when they're compressed, so it must load everything, even what it won't use. Won't be a problem with uTorrent, but it may be with other stuff you deal with.