I am interested in the utorrent portable app. But when trying to download it I get an exe file. Do I have to use a downloader or something to get the actual zip file? Or is there a way to download just the zip file?
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It's a portable installer. All apps in PortableApps.com Format are distributed that way:
https://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app#whypaf
uTorrent Portable is what's known as a live installer that downloads utorrent.exe as you run the installer. This is due to licensing reasons after we communicated with the uTorrent publishers.
Fun fact: Anyone distributing uTorrent.exe within a zip file or similarly packaged in something else is doing it illegally.
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how is it illegal if it's a freeware.
also does portableapps version contain the hidden from users hardware-utilizing EpicScale botnet, which new utorrent versions come with?