Torrent Client
The first client, known as torrent, was created by Bram Cohen, in October 2002.
Many subsequent clients have been at least partially based on it. Not all clients were originally built for Torrent, having added support for the protocol later on. There have been attempts to package malware as Torrent clients, probably due to the availability of many legitimate clients and users' willingness to try new ones.
A client is an application or system that accesses a remote service on another computer system, known as a server, by way of a network.
Web browsers are clients that connect to web servers and retrieve web pages for display. Increasingly, existing large client applications are being switched to websites, making the browser a sort of universal client. This avoids the hassle of downloading a large piece of software onto any computer you want to use the application on.
uTorrent
The most commonly used torrent client. It is very popular for its simplicity, reliability and also its size - only around 200KB. It has a very nice web site, including extensive forums - if you have any problems. The clear choice for newbies! The "u" at the beginning of the name means micro, they rather use "u" because it's easier to write and there are no problems with encoding.
Azureus
Another very favourite client, written in Java (You need to have JRE installed, but that is very common). It is highly customizable, whilst it has no complicated controls. This application is open-source. The program's logo is the Blue Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates azureus). The Azureus name was given to the project by co-creator Tyler Pitchford, who uses the Latin names of poison dart frogs as codenames for his development projects.
BitSpirit
A client famous for its possibility to download from private trackers without registration. Most commonly used to download from TorrentLeech.org, because this tracker usually provides downloads at amazing speeds. Can often fill all of your connection speed.
