Transmission, one of the most used non-commercial BitTorrent clients, has the dubious honor of becoming the first OSX application to be infected by ransomware.

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Users who install the malicious application risk having their computers encrypted, with attackers demanding a Bitcoin payment to decrypt it.

However, this weekend several users started to report malware problems in the Transmission forums.

When we identified the issue, the infected DMG files were still available for downloading from the Transmission site, they write.

The attackers then promise to decrypt it if a ransom is paid, amounting to one Bitcoin in this case.

After completing the encryption process, KeRanger demands that victims pay one bitcoin (about 400) to a specific address to retrieve their files, the researchers explain.

But with well over a year since the last update and scant documentation, BitTorrent just hasnt kept up with the competition.

Overall, we think BitTorrent does a fairly good job, but with some slow response times, a lack of development, and a noticeably aged interface, you might want to look elsewhere.

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As a retired Computer Scientist of 30 years experience, I do understand the theory behind bit torrent: I am just not expert enough to figure out how to use this application.

Occasionally hogs my cpu at 90 and causes my Macbooks fan to trigger.

Get something else.

Vuze is bloated with useless features but at least it works.

They claim the more files you seed the faster you can download but that is not the case Average file speed is less than 4 KBs.

It appears to have a memory leak problem: it crashes after about 4 hours of operation and has to be restarted.

The user interface is not as informative and intuitive as it could be.

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