[deanhills]

Stop using FileZilla, the owner bundle's malware alongside with it and ignores when people complains. https://forum.filezilla-project.org/view...hp?t=48441

Wow!  The Filezilla discussion thread that you mentioned looks scary - a real eye-opener.  The Internet is beginning to get scary wherever you go though.  Everyone outdoing one another with scary details and anti-virus and anti-malware getting more and more intrusive in one's computer registry creating all kinds of conflicts and warnings.

I think security has become so intrusive that it's getting to the stage where it is counter-productive.  It's hard for me to get into my own accounts any longer before I receive all kinds of flags from my browser. The other day I even got blocked out of my Google account - Google is getting worse by the day with its new security applications making it more and more difficult for me to use my e-mail accounts when I'm travelling.

I think the only reliable anti-malware detector is malwarebytes.  The moment it comes up with a FileZilla threat I'll stop using FileZilla. That said, I don't disbelieve your comments about watching out for FileZilla - particularly when you load it for the first time. If I have to download FileZilla from scratch, I use an old script .exe file that I know is reasonably clean that I update afterwards.  In spite of this precaution I also know full well, as with most of this type of FTP scripts, that I'm taking a risk.  For the convenience of using it, I'm OK for now.  But the moment malwarebytes indicates to the contrary, I'll move on to the next better thing - possibly WinSCP. But again, by its very nature any FTP script is a huge risk, and probably will be bringing up even greater red flags by the anti-virus and anti-malware script filters in future. FTP is red flag security territory - like one has to use it with the greatest caution.

[Kururin]

Wow!  The Filezilla discussion thread that you mentioned looks scary - a real eye-opener.  The Internet is beginning to get scary wherever you go though.  Everyone outdoing one another with scary details and anti-virus and anti-malware getting more and more intrusive in one's computer registry creating all kinds of conflicts and warnings.

I think security has become so intrusive that it's getting to the stage where it is counter-productive.  It's hard for me to get into my own accounts any longer before I receive all kinds of flags from my browser.  The other day I even got blocked out of my Google account - Google is getting worse by the day with its new security applications making it more and more difficult for me to use my e-mail accounts when I'm travelling.

I think the only reliable anti-malware detector is malwarebytes.  The moment it comes up with a FileZilla threat I'll stop using FileZilla. That said, I don't disbelieve your comments about watching out for FileZilla - particularly when you load it for the first time. If I have to download FileZilla from scratch, I use an old script .exe file that I know is reasonably clean that I update afterwards.  In spite of this precaution I also know full well, as with most of this type of FTP scripts, that I'm taking a risk.  For the convenience of using it, I'm OK for now.  But the moment malwarebytes indicates to the contrary, I'll move on to the next better thing - possibly WinSCP.  But again, by its very nature any FTP script is a huge risk, and probably will be bringing up even greater red flags by the anti-virus and anti-malware script filters in future.  FTP is red flag security territory - like one has to use it with the greatest caution.

Yes, WinSCP is the best right now but I would recommend Transmit if you had a Mac. To address some of your security concerns about Filezilla, nobody really trusts it anymore. Huge downloading company like sourceforge, fosshub puts a warning on their page on Filezilla about the malware's case. Although Filezilla's own website have no info on that (as expected since they dont want anyone to suspect them of adware/malware). About Malwarebytes I have used it for the longest time and never had an issue with it once, except maybe a compaint about their new design 3.0 beside that I am happy with them and a longest paying customer. I have simply stopped using google. Except since my school forces on me I have to use it for email -- that is it. I take everything to protonmail now, I even have their VPN. I highly recommend them. FTP isn't really a red flag if you use SFTP which is the secure version with SSL/TLS enabled. I would also recommend using rsync to copy over local machine to server vice-versa as it's simplied my life not having to use a client to download some file.

[Littlemaster]

Beware about file corruption, I think this is due to some network issue and resume capability. Better send the back up to cloud or any remote server and download it using IDM directly. So you can have both a remote back up and local back up, always check the file is restorable.

[sagher]

It's surprising for me about filezilla. because i mostly use this in past. and it's quit easy then others. and also most famous to use.