Use uTorrent or Azureus to download and if you ever download anything that requires anything other than a standard media player or WinRAR in order to play, be a little suspicious. We suggest that everyone stays well away from every site on the above lists. (WakeNet’s own homepage is on the same server)ġ4. (additional information from Symantec)ġ5. (there’s even a link to this from Wakenet’s homepage)ĩ. Our investigations revealed two major servers carrying the malware-ridden clients, media players, compression utilities and other sites supporting the enterprise: IP: 69.72.144.122ġ. Installing Winzix again results in malware getting onto the host PC. Unfortunate downloaders will download something from BitTorrent, only to learn that it needs to ‘decompressed’ with Winzix in order to work. They also have a new ( fake) ‘compression’ utility called Winzix, obviously named to be confused with Winzip. Wakenet has a new domain called (currently diverting to their Cash4Downloads site) – no prizes for guessing the planned confusion with novices and the official ‘uTorrent’ client. It didn’t take much research to discover that a Swedish company called Wakenet is behind the enterprise, a company that made news on lots of spyware sites due to its Anti-Leech plugin. These are just a handful of bad clients currently available online. We have regularly reported on BitTorrent clients which also install this malware such as Torrent101, BitRoll, TorrentQ and GetTorrent. However, there are companies out there who give you ‘free’ software (like a torrent client) but at the same time install some of that extra stuff you don’t want too. All the best BitTorrent clients (like uTorrent) are free and when you install them they don’t install extra stuff on your PC like adverts, annoying popups or spyware.
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