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Wow, FileZilla’s bundled installer includes a malware downloader and the dev defends it horribly.

If using FileZilla, uninstall and find something else. Even if this issue is fixed, the morally ambiguous and defensive response is very concerning.

forum.filezilla-project.org/vi

infinite love Ⴟ @trwnh

@entreprelife
Mac or Windows: cyberduck.io
Linux: probably built into your file manager already

@trwnh @entreprelife linux's filezilla probably isnt bundled with anything, especially if you use your distro's package manager

@wowaname @entreprelife yeah but why install anything when you probably already have something that does the job by default

@wowaname Which desktop environment do you use? GNOME, KDE, MATE, XFCE, elementary, LXDE, etc all have file managers that support remote access. In fact, I can't even think of a single commonly-used file manager that *doesn't* support at least ftp, ftps, and/or sftp. Which makes sense, because remote file access is core functionality of any practical file manager. A local-only manager would be extremely niche.

@trwnh no DE but i use thunar

for some reason i thought thunar didnt support that, but seems it does
@trwnh i just use commandline for my scp operations

@wowaname @trwnh @entreprelife

you don't even need a file manager, just install gvfs 😛