After all these years, popular BitTorrent clients like uTorrent and qBitTorrent are still flagged as PUA by Microsoft’s Windows Defender. Many users are complaining that Windows’s default antivirus software is terming these clients as Potentially Unwanted Applications and removing them silently. They’re called to pose a severe threat to the system.
Microsoft Sees uTorrent as Severe Threat.
For years, most BitTorrent clients are named malware by several antivirus companies . This is fair to an extent since many have turned out with malicious intents like installing a cryptocurrency miner or adware. But, clean torrent clients like uTorrent running without bad remarks is flagged as dangerous.
@utorrent I just can’t get uTorrent to work on windows anymore, web or desktop won’t even download. Any suggestions? — Franz Wolfsson (@darkstwizard) March 10, 2021
