If you recently installed or updated uTorrent on your PC, you may have have picked up an unwanted passenger: a bitcoin miner called Epic Scale.
If you don't pay attention, that piece of code can be inadvertently
installed with the latest uTorrent build (version 3.4.2). It can then
use your computer as part of a bitcoin farm (Litecoin, to be exact) to
generate revenue for third parties. Users first reported the situation
on uTorrent's forums,
and it was quickly confirmed...
