The miner was removed in later versions, but had already done irreversible damage to μTorrent's reputation. μTorrent became controversial in 2015 when many users unknowingly accepted a default option during installation which also installed a cryptocurrency miner. The ' μ' (Greek letter ' mu') in its name comes from the SI prefix ' micro-', referring to the program's small memory footprint: the program was designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger BitTorrent clients such as Vuze or BitComet. With over 150 million users it is the most widely used BitTorrent client outside China globally only behind Xunlei. ΜTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation) is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client owned and developed by Rainberry, Inc. 3.5.5 (build 46090) (7 September 2021 23 days ago ( )) ģ.5.5 Beta (build 46084) (1 September 2021 29 days ago ( )) Īndroid, Linux (Server version only, only officially supports very old versions of Debian and Ubuntu), Microsoft Windows, macOS Įnglish, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Brazilian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Default), Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese
