The well known site administrator “botg” who is none other than the author of FileZilla Tim Kosse, replied to the user with a bunch of nonsense answers to misdirect the user. A user pointed out that if they did not get reassurance that FileZilla was not infected with malware then they would ban it from company use. There is one post in particular that I can no longer find which was awe inspiringly stupid.
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Corporate bugged out which is enough reason for me to say, “DO NOT USE FILEZILLA ANYMORE FOR WORK!”Īt the time I did a bunch of research and if you want to entertain yourself the FileZilla forum is full of people complaining about virus scanners detecting malware in the FileZilla installer.
Her computer had to be sent TO CORPORATE physically and she was out of commission for about a week. My poor co-worker downloaded FileZilla from their website, installed it and corporate immediately flagged her computer as compromised.
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I usually do not deal with this problem because I use for my basic installers which automatically downloads and installs software for me and skips any potential bloatware. For me it was a robotic response, “Oh you need an FTP client? Just use FileZilla!” I had not known that FileZilla’s integrity had suffered and that they started bundling their installer with hot garbage no one wants.
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I felt very guilty when I recommended a co-worker install FileZilla when they asked which FTP client to install. I unfortunately had a very poor experience several years back in 2019.
I do not recommend using FileZilla for work “If you are too stupid to not click on the giant green button, that’s your fault.” is the line I am paraphrasing which I got from the CDisplayEx acolytes. Clearly the people who work on FileZilla don’t care because they parrot the same nonsense reasoning I got from the criminals running CDisplayEx now after the original founder died. It’s a violation of trust and it will damage your reputation. There is nothing wrong with asking for donations or selling merch to fund your project, but there is everything wrong with taking advantage of people’s trust who have for years blindly installed your application because they love(d) it. The jerks who run that project are making the same defenses that FileZilla is now making which is just sad.
This unfortunately is a reminder of when I got hit with malware installing CDisplayEx back in 2014. People generally dislike this and it’s a weak argument to say, “We have both a bundled and unbundled installer” when the bundled installer is the giant green download button.
I can’t say that FileZilla bundles their installers with harmful viruses per se, but they do bundle it with AdWare and Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). It’s especially bad when the software it’s being bundled with, is what people would generally consider almost a virus. One thing that really upsets me is when software providers all of a sudden decide to start providing their software as bundled installers. It was always my go to piece of software for FTP as both the client and server. It was heralded as being an excellent FTP client and server and I would have to agree. I have been using FileZilla since it came out (I think?) back in 2001.
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