Azureus

[wdsfld]

ok cheers ill try that. the router wasnt switched off, but I'm not really sure what went on with the network. ill post again if it works

[wdsfld]

nope everything seemed fine. Anyway, ive given in and changed bt clients to bittornado. everything seems fine. Im sure it must have been something stupid with azureus, perhaps something wrong with the version of JAVA I had. Thanks anyway.

[reignking]

hello.

i have what i'm hoping is a simple problem... i'm trying to download a torrent and my normal application wont accept it (bittornado). on the boards it says theres a problem with tornado and to use azereus and it works fine.

so i downloaded the latest version of it. installed it. but when i click on the torrent file it wont connect. it list that there are plenty of peers and seeds but i'm not connected to any of them.

i'm not sure if it's the port? as bittonrado would automatically do the port work for me.

any suggestions to make this work? or what other information would you need to help me out?

btw: i have disabled my firewall for this, and windows firewall is disabled.

rk

[reignking]

never mind... i overlooked opening the port in my router...

duh!

[posty]

Im new here but i wanted to point out my surprise,
maybe i was naive but I thought opensource software meant it would be clean from spyware, but on a recent bitdefender scan i got this warning for
Azureus_2.3.0.4_Win32.setup.exe which I downloaded from the sourceforge site -

Detected: Adware.Exact.Bargainbuddy.O

I remeber a warning on the azureus site saying not to download this from elsewhere, so just to make sure I went here
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php
and downloaded it again just now and scan gives same warning.

[kazaaman]

What antispyware software do you use, I recommend Ad-Aware and Spybot Search&Destroy, not that Microsoft crap, it always detected fake stuff.

[posty]

This was with Bitdefender which is a virus scanner.
I used to use Ad-aware up until it got too comercial, then Spybot, but now from what i heard Spybot is begining to conform to some type of regulation laid out by a regulatory body and that doesn't sound good to me.

[phrax]

It's completely safe. You most likely downloaded a screwed with version. Make sure you get the real version as linked above. Can i recommend you download and run microsoft anti-spyware?

[oxygenuk]

i use that old version 2.2 or something.

i dont think ill be updating, thanks for the warning

[borris]

i am using the latest Azureus 2.3.0.4, i have Kaspersky antivirus, Adaware and Ad-watch, with latest definitions, uptill now nothing fishy detected! Azureus does not have any spyware.