Filezilla installer is suspicious again

Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by loganabbott on Saturday June 23, 2018 @12:45PM (#17382052)

FYI the SourceForge version of FileZilla is clean, and has been since 2016. The official FileZilla installer has been doing this for some time now though. In case people don’t know, a lot has changed at SourceForge since my company acquired them in 2016. All projects are scanned for malware. We covered the improvements again here https://sourceforge.net/blog/brief-history-sourceforge-look-...

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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by EpicEng on Saturday June 23, 2018 @11:18PM (#17384754)

The fact that a clean installer exists is not really the point, nor should you take it as an opportunity to plug your company.

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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by mintplant on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:23PM (#17382261)

Yet this happened with your company at the helm:

https://medium.com/@jonykatz/sourceforge-hiding-fact-that-th...

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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by loganabbott on Saturday June 23, 2018 @02:14PM (#17382544)

This blog post is not accurate at all.

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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by mintplant on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:44PM (#17383036)

So what's your side of the story, then?

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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by loganabbott on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:42PM (#17384082)

We lost a few hours of commits and notified everyone affected. That's it.

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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by mintplant on Sunday June 24, 2018 @01:07AM (#17385033)

And the disappearing tickets?

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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by Fnoord on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:54PM (#17384134)

Regardless of that we can no longer trust the developers of FileZilla.

If they need money, they should ask for donations instead. Patreon was suggested elsewhere in this thread.

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