A portable version is available on
PortableApps.com.
Ports Transmission is a collection of BitTorrent clients available in GUI, CLI, and daemon forms. The clients use a cross-platform back-end and include graphical and command-line interfaces. There are several transmission clients for different operating systems including
Unix-like,
macOS and
BeOS/
ZETA. Each operating system front-end is built using native
widget toolkits. In November 2010, iTransmission, another unofficial port, was released for jailbroken iPhones sporting a
GUI that is capable of downloading directly to the device over WiFi or 3G. A Transmission remote was released for
Android, with the name of
Transdroid but does not currently support downloading directly to devices. On
Windows, Transmission-Qt can be built with
MinGW, the daemon and console tools can be built with
Cygwin, also there are two third-party
GUIs: transmission-remote-dotnet and Transmission Remote GUI, as well as unofficial full builds of Transmission's Qt Client. There is also an unofficial full build of Transmission
daemon which can be run as a
Windows service. This same unofficial full build of Transmission
daemon running as a
Windows service can be used for direct
streaming of the downloading file(s). A port for all platforms enhanced with streaming of the downloading file(s) is located on
GitHub. It is also ported to the
Maemo OS of the
Nokia N810 internet tablet and
N900 smartphone as well as to the
MeeGo/
Harmattan OS of the
Nokia N9 and
N950 smartphones, on which it does download the torrents to the device.
Website breach In March 2016,
Palo Alto Networks reported that Transmission's official website was compromised and tainted
.dmg files were uploaded to the site, using an
Apple Developer signature to bypass the OS X
gatekeeper feature. The tainted packages installed a
ransomware application (a variant of
Linux.Encoder.1, but recompiled for Mac, known as
KeRanger) that encrypts the user's files and attempts to force users to pay 1
Bitcoin (worth roughly US$404 at the time of the attack) in order to get the decryption pack. The Transmission website advised Mac users to immediately upgrade to a new version that removes the malware-infected file. Apple revoked the developer certificate that was used to sign the tainted package, and added the package's signature to the
XProtect anti-malware system. == Reception ==