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Well torrenting is never 100% safe. You have to always take additional precautions. Only download from trusted websites. I mainly use Pirate Bay or Kickass. Always check comments and ratings of the torrent. uTorrent and qBitTorrent are both great torrenting clients. Also, it's always safer to torrent while using VPN protecting your data from both government and/or hackers. As I can see u/Superbroom advised TunnelBear. It was a pretty good VPN before selling themselves out to McAfee then I had to switch to NordVPN. Terrenting is great choice as long as you take all of the needed safety measures.

While I haven't found a command line input to do this for you, you could see here and see if that is able to be done via command line.

EpicScale installs silently with the latest utorrent.

Installing software without permission is malicious if you ask me.

I have now switched to Deluge.

Use filebot and the Automated Media Center (amc) script. It's pretty amazing. It unrars, moves and renames my movies/TV shows, etc., and moves them to their appropriate directory for Plex.

https://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=215

And that WAS the issue.
NordVPN made a new way to use their service. Instead og email as user, and a password, they generated a hashed string for each. So the only thing I had to do was:

1: Go on their website
2: Log in
3: Find the new hashed string. (at the bottom of login page)
4: Replace those strings with the ones in uTorrent.

A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a service that lets you access the web safely and privately by routing your connection through a server and hiding your online actions. Then the other computer passes your traffic back into the Internet.
Since your actions are hidden your service provider doesn't know you are downloading a torrent. All they can see is you have an encrypted connection to another computer. And people who are watching torrents being downloaded can't trace it back to you. I use with OpenVPN. But its a little complicated to setup. As a newbie you might like

Are you connected to P2P servers? Also, make sure to run the VPN tunnel before establishing a torrent connection (often it is running in the background). And does it even connect to peers? Still using NordVPN and no such issues, so it should be internal.

I recommend a VPN. I have been using PIA (Private Internet Access).

Oldapps or oldversion.

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/utorrent-2-2-1-build-25302 if the link on the sidebar thing is not working.

Check it is 390.37 KB (or 390 KB/399,736 bytes) and has the digital signature from "BitTorrent Inc" at "‎18 ‎May ‎2011 00:17:26". This assumes 25302.

Dont let the install programme install anything except the client.

Go into the apps setting and uninstall opera, web companion, and anything else that it installed, then unistall the client.

Rerun the client and dont let it install any optional or partner content.

You are probably better off uninstalling it all and then using uTorrent 2.2.1 from oldversions (if the link to oldapps is still not working in the sidebar).

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/utorrent-2-2-1-25302

Happy that worked!

The drama (and much, much more...):

If you were lucky... and if you were unlucky

So yeah, plenty of people got screwed in many ways - adware, ransomware, crypto miner...you name it.

Though, i only used 2.x versions because it should be "Micro" and later versions (3.x and onwards) started going downhill pretty fast, and getting more and more bloat. It worked well...might go back to it some point, qbittorrent has some annoying bugs.

Thanks. I've tried with qBittorrent as well with the same results. I've also tried several different torrent files both with and without a vpn (PIA and ExpressVPN). I always get the same results. That's why I figure it must be a setting. I used to be able to download at speeds much higher.

Chances are qBittorrent's proxy support might have been borked, or it was leaking related traffic (signalling or setup) -- or it wasn't proxying your peer traffic, only the tracker and DHT traffic.

Are you connecting to PIA on the Asus and routing all traffic through an OpenVPN connection? Are you sure that it's always connecting OK? If not, have you configured the kill switch to avoid inadvertently routing traffic out direct?

I have an RT-AC66U B1 which I set up with NordVPN; most servers work but a few inexplicably didn't. Not even NordVPN were 100% sure why not, but anyway.

If you're routing all traffic via the VPN (or you've selectively routed your computer's traffic via the VPN when connected on the AsusWRT settings), double tunnelling by using uTorrent's SOCKS proxy is irrelevant. You're encapsulating already encapsulated traffic. A waste of bandwidth and throughput. It's no more secure.

Best time to use PIA via SOCKS is if you want your computer to be directly connected, but just route torrents through a VPN. I do similar with NordVPN. Be sure to enable all of the proxy privacy options -- use the proxy for everything -- to avoid inadvertently leaking torrent-related traffic and behaviour to ISP DNS servers or remote clients. Route your peer traffic via the proxy. I always set my Protocol Encryption to Forced for outgoing.

It doesn't seem to show any peers, unless remove the NordVPN login info from Utorrent. By default I taught him to just click the magnet links. The settings are Utorrent are at their default (aside from NordVPN login info). I believe the PC is Windows Vista Home Premium.

I have found that uTorrent and qBitTorrent are the best torrenting applications for downloading and then seeding back out to others. It is purely up to you and those are not the only ones out there. Read reviews and find what would work best for you. Usually where you see viruses are with public torrent sites like Pirate Bay - not saying that they're all bad but you have to be careful. Where I have found the most reliable torrents is with private trackers. Check out r/torrents, r/trackers, and r/invites since you will need an invitation to the private sites (don't beg for one or you won't get it). To answer the question about anonymity it's because when you download anything P2P (Peer to Peer) the person(s) you are downloading from can see your IP address, rough location, etc. By using a VPN like Private Internet Access (PIA). This all helps to keep you and your data private. Final answer (in a summed up version); no uTorrent or any other torrent site/application is not illegal since you are sharing the files much like you would share your bike with a friend. It's when people steal a bike from a store that it becomes illegal.

I suppose there should be an option like 'Choose download location' or something.

If you're unable to make it work then you could switch to this - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hu.tagsoft.ttorrent.lite