Edit: No SpywareVirus in Deluge

[rocksinthecreek]

Looks like it is just my anti-virus reacting to the packer. I got this report on the jpeg.dll:

Dear customer,

Thank you for using CA Security Advisor.

This is to notify you of the results of your submission, issue number
1476702. Please keep this issue number for future reference.
Please see below for the final results of our analysis of your file
submission.

We successfully received the following files:

FILE SIZE CONCLUSION
------------------------------------------------------------------------
JPG.DLL.ZIP 55979 clean
------------------------------------------------------------------------
JPEG.DLL 58368 confirmed clean
------------------------------------------------------------------------

So deluge looks fine, but I would have to change my anti-virus to use it.

Thanks for your patience.

[johnnyg]

Yes I would recommend changing anti-virus - false positive anti-virus can often cause windows to become unstable (I remember norton once thought windows was a virus ). AVG or Avast are ok in terms of free anti-virus otherwise if you willing to pay get ESET NOD32 or Kapersky.

OR, get linux and never look back

[drdemented]

(I remember norton once thought windows was a virus )

OR, get linux and never look back

hehehe...funny, I thought Windows was a virus too...

[avatarl]

Deluge is a GPL multi-platform program. Its initial audience was linux. Unless someone tampered with the source and you downloaded it from someplace other than the official site, assuming it has any sort of spyware or virus is rather...you know... ridiculous. You might not say the same for Azureus, for example, which is supposedly still a GPL project, only filled with adware to the point that many linux distros just won't update beyond ver 3.1 or even 2.5. That, and Vuze devs were rather quick to point out that if you download a changed source (ie no ads, no vuze layer) from someplace else, we can't guarantee that it doesn't have malware. Yay for FUD. If there was a shady thing in Deluge, distro devs would have found it when they were checking the program and I can't see how the devs would pull a windows-only crap like that.

In general, try not to spread strange rumors, we already have every other big client with adware and stuff, they won't miss the FUD opportunity if it'll help them stay afloat for a while longer.