friends don't let friends use uTorrent
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/utorrent-bugs-let-websites-control-your-computer-and-steal-your-downloads/
uTorrent hasn't been good since 2.2.1 and that version is ancient and is not gonna get patched
there are a decent amount of other BitTorrent clients out there:
- qBittorrent (this is the one I use)
- Deluge
- Transmission
- rtorrent