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.

Affected Products

BitTorrent
BitComet
Azureus
Utorrent

Impact

Network bandwidth consumption

Technology

Peer-to-Peer

Behavior

Evasive
Excessive-Bandwidth

Version Updates

Date	Version	Status	Detail
2025-01-28	29.944	Modified	Sig Added
2023-04-13	23.535	Modified	Sig Added
2023-03-16	23.513	Modified	Sig Added
2022-12-06	22.452	Modified	Sig Added
2021-04-26	18.067	Modified	Sig Added
2019-10-22	14.708	Modified	Sig Added
2019-05-15	14.614	Modified	Sig Added
2019-03-12	14.571	Modified	Sig Added
2019-03-01	14.564	Modified	Sig Added
2019-01-31	14.539	Modified	Sig Added