[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.