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UNLESS, you are a big company or a hugely popular software for the average user computer base, where you'll be permanently whitelisted. But he needs to do it, potentially, for every, single, version, released that is made. As for the rest, shitty A/V are shitty A/V.įor the developer of FileZilla, he can fix this by having his project whitelisted.

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I am surprised that Microsoft made the list, but Windows 10 Defender isn't complaining, even after doing a system scan, so they probably use Microsoft Security Essential from Windows 7, or an old version. I already made a software, a small utility, mostly for myself, but put made a setup out of it for possible distribution, and hold and behold, a bunch of A/V on VirusTotal marked it as a variety of viruses, from Trojan to adware.įunny thing is that I am looking at the list:Īnd it is always seems to be the same anti-viruses that marks everything as a virus, for me.ĮSET-NOD32 and Avira are always on the list, as it marks anything that isn't from a very large company, pretty much, as 'potentially unwanted', and therefore: 'ZOMG! Virus! Virus!' Just a headsup for everyone using filezilla, you might want to deinstall it for now. And it seems people are mostly worried about this. But people see that I hope, the problem lies in the bundled software. It looks like the owner/maker is trying to do some stuff about it, but mostly he is defensive and trying to show the program itself is not problem. Not to mention your use of Click Baiting (Social Engineering) by using a big green download button.hiding the alternative download link at the bottom with small text so that nobody pays attention.

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It was slow and the interface was horrible but what could I do? I couldn't risk getting hacked again.Īfter much frustration I finally decided to modify FileZilla® and add the master password support so that I and others could once again use the FTP client I love without risking you even know what software applications or advertisement software you are bundling with the bundled version of FileZilla? How do you know without a doubt that the software you are bundling is not malicious or not able to lead to anything malicious? If you can honestly say you know for sure, then you are complacent in the delivery of malvertising applications to people. So despite loving FileZilla® I switched to WinSCP which has master password support.

While I can see his point, the harder I make it for hackers the better as far as I am concerned. Unfortunately the author of FileZilla® refuses to add this feature, insisting that it is the responsibility of the OS to protect your files. This way if someone gets a hold of your password file they won't be able to read it without the master password.Īdding master password functionality is the #1 requested feature for FileZilla®. What could be done to prevent this? Other programs that save sensitive information like Firefox, Chrome, Bitcoin, and others use a master password to encrypt and protect your information. All it took was for me was to visit a website that had been compromised, the malware got into my system through some sort of browser exploit, and within seconds someone somewhere suddenly had access to all of my websites.Īfter spending almost a week trying to clean up this mess I was determined to never let this happen again. I soon discovered that FileZilla® was storing all my passwords in a plain text file on my computer, and knowing this, malware authors and hackers are targeting this file.

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Plus it saved all my logins and passwords for me which made managing the dozens of sites I looked after much much easier.Įverything was fine for years until one day all of the websites I managed were hacked, filled with malware, and blacklisted from Google on the same day. I've been a web developer for a while now and like most web developers I use FTP, a lot. Now Filezilla® has also decided to support encrypted passwords. Why FileZilla Secure? tl dr at the time I started this project, FileZilla® did not encrypt saved FTP passwords and I got hacked, so I decided to implement it on own.