“We have reviewed the issue closely and can confirm there is no silent install happening. We are continuing to look at the issue. But this is most likely these users accepted the offer during install.”

The Epic Scale tool, which slows down host computers, is reportedly being installed without consent and for some is particularly hard to remove.

The issue was also brought up at the uTorrent forums, but the initial thread was deleted by a moderator. Meanwhile, many more complaints started pouring in, mostly on the freefixer website.

“Just updated uTorrent and it didn’t tell me anything about that total f*cked up ‘Epic Scale’ trash, which constantly keeps popping up with ‘Could not connect to server’.

What appeared to have got most users goat was that they did not get a permission popup and Epic Scale offer was added silently.

The Epic Scale team says that it’s investigating the issue as it did not intend it to be an autoinstall.