Thank you OP for sharing such a useful information...
Though I would like to ask you one thing, that is it just EpicScale we should delete, or we need to get rid of uTorrent also?
I personally am a fan of uTorrent and I didn't ever think that why they would do that...
As you said, even due to this, my lappy was always experiencing over-heat problems, and due to it, I ain't even able to do multi-tasking nowadays as I am a crazy movie downloader.
You don't need to remove uTorrent unless you are trying to make a statement. I wasn't "tricked" into installing EpicScale, and don't feel like that was uTorrent's intention, so I'm still using uTorrent.
There are reports that uninstalling Epic Scale via the control panel isn't actually quite as straightforward as it seems since a lot of files and registry entries are supposedly left behind which need to be removed manually.
You don't need to remove uTorrent unless you are trying to make a statement. I wasn't "tricked" into installing EpicScale, and don't feel like that was uTorrent's intention, so I'm still using uTorrent.
Thanks for the answer...
But one more thing I wish to know is, if it ain't the intention of uTorrent itself, why would they allow such a software as an add-on during uTorrent's main software installation???
uTorrent isn't the only one doing this. Nearly every other company out there is trying to sneak a little something extra in their installs. People need to do a little due diligence these days (and not just blindly click the 'next button') to prevent unwanted programs from being installed on their computers. This is unfortunately just the way it is and I can only imagine it's going to get worse, not better.
They do it for the money basically. Since the software itself is free, that is one way they can generate money from it. Many freeware programs also have a paid pro version that omits these extra "goodies" which might be worth the extra expense. You're right that many companies are doing this although the practice isn't exactly new. Kazaa did it. Nero did it. You could even argue that OEM PC manufacturers that install pointless third party bloatware on their products are doing some form of it. Even Oracle does so by including the Ask! Toolbar and McAfee Security Scanner with their Java installer.
As for exactly how uTorrent might benefit in this situation:
In March 2015, it was alleged that µTorrent had automatically installed a program known as Epic Scale—a program classified as "riskware" by some security programs, which mines the cryptocurrency Litecoin in the background for charity (a cut of which is given to BitTorrent, Inc.), utilizing CPU and GPU power.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTorrent
