At a glance:

ID 26038
Released Mar 02, 2011
Description Updated Oct 21, 2019
Category P2P
Vendor BitTorrent, Inc
Risk
Popularity
Deep App Ctrl No
Language Multiple
Deprecated No
Technology Peer-to-Peer
Behavior Evasive
Excessive-Bandwidth

Update History

Date Version Detail
2016-01-11 6.767 *Sig Added
2016-04-28 7.844 *Sig Added
2016-06-10 8.876 Behavior updated to 'Evasive, Excessive-Bandwidth' from 'Excessive-Bandwidth'
2016-06-23 8.886 *Sig Added
2017-07-07 11.176 *Sig Added
2017-07-20 11.185 *Sig Added
2017-07-21 11.186 Modified
2017-08-11 11.201 Modified
2017-08-31 11.213 *Sig Added
2017-09-05 11.215 *Sig Added
2018-02-27 12.326 *Sig Added

Application Control Application Control

BitTorrent_HTTP.Track

Description

This indicates an attempt to use a BitTorrent client that uses the BitTorrent P2P protocol.
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing protocol. It is one of the most widely used protocol for file transfer. P2P protocol has been popular with users because of the huge increments in download and upload speed. BitTorrent works by providing a tracker file which list the files that can be transferred and then allows the client to find peers who can transfer the files.