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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by TorKlingberg on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:53AM (#14201509)
It also comes with bundled malware, so be careful.
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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by jrimbault on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:02AM (#14202045)
Not entirely true. Sourceforge bundles things with their installers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8849950

But you could always get a normal installer even then, and I think (don't quote me on that, I never really used SF) Sourceforge stopped doing that after their acquisition ?

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by hannob on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @08:06AM (#14202271)
Sourceforge stopped it, filezilla did not. And Filezilla explicitly defended the sourceforge practice when it was still in place. They're a very shady project.
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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by SippinLean on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:31AM (#14202753)
It's not just if you dl from sourceforge:

https://filezilla-project.org/download.php

>This installer may include bundled offers.

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