READ This or You risk ban on all trackers

[rvt]

1.6.1 (488) fine
1.6.1 (489) fine
1.6.1 (490) fine
1.7.0 (3353) bugged
1.7.1 (3360) bugged
1.7.2 (3458) bugged
1.7.3 (4470) bugged
1.7.4 (4482) bugged
1.7.5 (4602) bugged

That's in relation to the new bug that allows anyone to crash your uT.

For the old POC code from milw0rm, it only works if an attacker can get you to open a torrent file with a very large announce URL, because the announce URL contains the exploit. On private sites using passkeys, that announce URL is changed anyway so a torrent you donwload from them can never contain the exploit.
For public trackers, you can stay safe if you open the file in torrentspy before opening in uT.
http://torrentspy.sourceforge.net/
If the announce URL is not valid, opening it in torrentspy will show you that.

[whitmar]

I appreciate rvt's fine work exposing the fallacy of so many sites' ban on every uTorrent version below 1.7.6. I'm still unclear, however, about the features or attributes of 1.6.1 that would motivate anyone to keep and risk a ban. I have used Azureus exclusively until recently, when I switched to uTorrent and the latest version was 1.7.5, so I never knew the benefits of 1.6.1. What are they?

[Zeus1]

switch from 1.6.1 to 1.7.6

[tenis69]

Thanks man i just upgraded from uTorrent 1.7.6.

[peat moss]

I appreciate rvt's fine work exposing the fallacy of so many sites' ban on every uTorrent version below 1.7.6. I'm still unclear, however, about the features or attributes of 1.6.1 that would motivate anyone to keep and risk a ban. I have used Azureus exclusively until recently, when I switched to uTorrent and the latest version was 1.7.5, so I never knew the benefits of 1.6.1. What are they?

I can't tell the difference either other than I have a blue Icon instead of a green one in my system tray .