14 DAY TRIAL // If you want to download uTorrent with your Chrome browser, you’ll have a few issues since it seems that the popular web browser thinks it’s malicious.
Anyone attempting to download the software is notified that the file is malicious and harmful as soon as the process is complete, TorrentFreak noticed.
You can’t get Chrome to keep the file for you, so the only option in the ribbon is to dismiss the notification. There is a way to get it without changing the browser and that’s by accessing the Downloads area.
From there, you can tell Chrome to “recover malicious file.” One you choose this, the browser will offer you yet another notification. “This file will harm your computer,” it begins. “Even if you have downloaded files from this website before, the website might have been hacked. Instead of recovering this file, you can retry the download later.”
The two options Google offers are quite funnily presented. You can choose between “hurt me plenty,” which is accepting to restore the file, and “be safe” which means you’ll try it out later instead.
It looks like the blockade started a few days ago, but instead of it being a temporary problem, it looks like things are still broken over at uTorrent. The warning continues to be displayed and it is unclear what the issues are specifically since the developers haven’t responded to users’ concerns over on the uTorrent forums.
According to Google’s safe browsing diagnostic page, a place where anyone can check out the recent history of a site, the uTorrent website isn’t currently listed as suspicious, although parts of the site were listed as such in the past 90 days.
While in this period, the site hasn’t acted as an intermediary in further distributing malware, the site has been known to host malicious software. It even infected 5 domains during the past three months.
There were some similar issues last year as well, but the problem was fixed within days then. Hopefully, a solution is heading our way this time around too since uTorrent is one of the most used torrent software in the world.
On Softpedia alone, there are over 2.2 million downloads, while the product’s homepage is sure to have considerably more.
Users have been complaining about the issues for days on the uTorrent dedicated forums, but there’s been no official stance from BitTorrent, the devs or anyone with connection to the company or the product.
The beta version seems to be OK as Chrome doesn't detect anything wrong with it. We've updated the uTorrent version available on Softpedia, too. You can read more here.