Filezilla for mac 10.10.3 software#

I am not going to try clicking on all the adverts to try and find out which one you have mistakenly been clicking on.ДЄs a general comment I have used SourceForge for many years and they do not add installer wrappers to any software hosted on their site. It sounds like you have been ignoring that message and clicking on one of the adverts below it and that is triggering another different website - not SourceForge and not FileZilla in to sending you some foul malware infested download. bz2 file, if you look closely in the top left portion you will actually see the words 'Your download will start in X seconds'.

click on nothing then what should happen is that SourceForge will after a few seconds automatically send you the. This download page as is not uncommon has on it lots of adverts some of which are deliberately misleading by themselves having the word 'download' in their advert. bz2 compressed file, it takes you to an automated download page, this is what happens in this case. the first entry on the FileZilla project page which remember 'says' it is for a. Now what sometimes may be the case is that when you click on a link to go to a download site e.g. There was no installer program, no malware, no unwanted extra applications, it was just the FileZilla program. I then decompressed that file by double-clicking on it, this produced the FileZilla application. I then clicked on the first choice which is for the Mac version of FileZilla and this downloads a. When you get to the real FileZilla installation page, you can quit. Take care to answer вЂњskipвЂќ to the malware installation requests. (This is a safe experiment.) Download FileZilla ( ). I sent a note to reporting that they are the scum of the earth for pushing malware. I suggested they remove the SourceForge installer and use that more primitive method.)

(They do have another download option that does not use an installer.

FileZilla can not avoid this evil practice since they are dependent on SourceforgeвЂ™s installer. Since FileZilla is an open source application maintained on SourceForge, they use SourceForgeвЂ™s installer package. I complained to FileZilla.ДЇileZilla said they could do nothing about it because SourceForge supplies the installation wrapper.

Filezilla for mac 10.10.3 install#

During the installation process it asked me to install known malware: MacKeeper (known to corrupt OS X), PremierOpinion (former versions know to be spyware), and ZipCloud. (Actually, test it yourself if you do not believe it.) Believe It Or Not! SourceForge is pushing malware.