[SOLVED] utorrent is gone and will not come back.

[Beachhead1985]

Hello,

I was torrenting last night. No issues.

Today; I go to use it and it won't open from the web. I try the shortcut; "Files moved or missing."

Search the PC; nothing.

Okay; download again. Done. Open. "Files moved or missing."

Lather, rise repeat.

What is going on?


Windows 7 for what it matters.

Thank you for your time.

 

[USAFRet]

What is "gone"?
Your utorrent client, or the thing you were trying to "download"?

 

[Beachhead1985]

What is "gone"?
Your utorrent client, or the thing you were trying to "download"?

The client itself. The program that downloads things.

 

[nikolic23]

Did u search it in Programs and Features maybe somehow u deleted it? try to download it again?

 

[Beachhead1985]

Did u search it in Programs and Features maybe somehow u deleted it? try to download it again?

That's exactly what I thought I had somehow done and just what I tried first.

 

[nikolic23]

Did u try to search hidden files and programs ( include them), enable that then try to find it in AppData\Roaming\uTorrent\

 

[Beachhead1985]

Did u try to search hidden files and programs ( include them), enable that then try to find it in AppData\Roaming\uTorrent\

Yes. The issue seems to be elsewhere because downloading the program again results in the mediated deletion of the downloaded install file.

 

[USAFRet]

Anything else seem to be "missing"?
Any other weird effects?

 

[Math Geek]

my guess is you downloaded a nice piece of malware along with whatever you were pirating. start doing some serious scanning and looking to se what you got infected with.

always playing with fire using that stuff and looks like you probably got burnt!!

 

[nikolic23]

my guess is you downloaded a nice piece of malware along with whatever you were pirating. start doing some serious scanning and looking to se what you got infected with.

always playing with fire using that stuff and looks like you probably got burnt!!

Math maybe be right, try to scan your PC for viruses!

 

[Beachhead1985]

Anything else seem to be "missing"?
Any other weird effects?

Well, it also deleted the web-based version when I tried to download that.

 

[Math Geek]

did you try another client? it's not normal for something to just disappear like that so the first guess is something bad happening. have you tried installing anything else? try some random software to see what happens. you need to isolate what is happening, whether it is just utorrent, or all clients or any software at all and so on.

 

[Beachhead1985]

It seems like I can download other things. but Specifically not utorrent.

 

[robert600]

Funny you mention utorrent ... I couldn't access mine either starting today ... turns out the win security thing was blocking it ... just go in there and allow it to run if you know what I mean. Hopefully it's a false alarm but no guaranties on that!

 

[Ralston18]

I will add another suggestion:

Look in Reliability History and Event Viewer.

Any error codes, warnings, or even informational events associated with utorrent?

Or perhaps any sort of entries that correspond with the utorrent failures , but do not specifically mention "utorrent"?

 

[Beachhead1985]

I figured it out. Needed to sleep on it.

Both the installer and program were black-listed by malwarebytes. I had to whitelist them from the malwarebytes program and that fixed it.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

They were blacklisted for a reason have fun getting malware and viruses

 

[robert600]

I figured it out. Needed to sleep on it.

Both the installer and program were black-listed by malwarebytes. I had to whitelist them from the malwarebytes program and that fixed it.

Yes, that was what Win Security was doing too ... odd that a program like utorrent would suddenly trigger an action like that but ... there you go.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, that was what Win Security was doing too ... odd that a program like utorrent would suddenly trigger an action like that but ... there you go.

Not odd at all.
Depending on where you got that client from, and what else might have been included in that install...it might be flagging a true positive.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Seems that's software developers, doing their best to think for you. Some people need that. Others do not.

=Wolf sends

 

[cryoburner]

Doing a quick check online, it sounds like Malwarebytes and some other AV software added Utorrent to their block lists over a year ago year as a "potentially unwanted application" due to it coming with optional installers for other software that can be unchecked at install-time. That could of course have changed though, or perhaps your copy was acquired from somewhere else and is actually bundled with something unwanted, so you should check what they are actually listing as being detected.

 

[robert600]

Not odd at all.
Depending on where you got that client from, and what else might have been included in that install...it might be flagging a true positive.

I can't speak for the OP but in my case at least ... utorrent was installed years ago and used a fair bit with no issues ... it just seems odd to me it would suddenly be regarded as problematic.

 

[USAFRet]

I can't speak for the OP but in my case at least ... utorrent was installed years ago and used a fair bit with no issues ... it just seems odd to me it would suddenly be regarded as problematic.

Algorithms in the malware and AV tools change all the time.

Recently, I had to ditch BitDefender. It would not let me into my router admin console. Flagged as malicious/unsafe.