Frequently Asked Questions

If you find your µTorrent process uses a huge amount of memory abnormally, or steadily increases to hundreds of MB of usage, it could be because of the NVIDIA firewall. If you have the Forceware Network Manager installed, please uninstall it.

This issue is much less common in µTorrent 2.2, but it is still possible. Antivirus utilities may block a file if they think it's potentially harmful. Excluding the download folders from indexing should solve the issue.

This can be caused your firewall. Disabling and rebooting can sometimes alleviate the issue, but some firewall software must be uninstalled instead.

Outpost Pro will cause this issue with high CPU traffic. Excluding µTorrent from its rules can help.

Avast is known to cause this issue with a feature called P2P shield. Disabling this feature will solve the issue.

Spyware Doctor 5 causes µTorrent to freeze when installed. The only fix is to uninstall it, or roll back to version 4 of Spyware Doctor.

V-Com System Suite, Norman Personal Firewall, NVIDIA Firewall and Cybersitter can cause this. The only solution is to uninstall the relevant software.