Shady company – a lot of torrent users just don’t like the company that develops uTorrent anymore.Our security software did the same when we installed uTorrent. Flagged as a virus – many torrent users complain their antivirus programs flag uTorrent as a virus or unwanted program.While the devs removed it, this shady move caused many people to switch to different torrent clients. Cryptominer – the uTorrent installer came with a Bitcoin cryptominer a few years ago.Some Redditors have complained about experiencing malware infections due to uTorrent’s ads. Ads – uTorrent features in-app ads, which are annoying and increase memory usage.If you skip through the installation without reading everything, you might accidentally install unwanted programs alongside uTorrent which might sometimes be malicious. Bloatware – uTorrent comes bundled up with unnecessary software.We checked multiple threads on Reddit and uTorrent forums and compiled the most common complaints about uTorrent not being safe in this list:
