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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

FileZilla's closed source installer


Just a quick blog-by to say I'm pretty disappointed with SourceForge's closed source installer, used by FileZilla, that at least tries to put adware, etc on your box. I hate these things, first because once you start putting adware (I'm looking at you, Oracle's Java installer) I can't tell how much trust I should lose. What else are you trying/actually installing? And second, in my case (see image), I couldn't run what was supposed to be an offline installer b/c it couldn't pick up SourceForge's ad-of-the-day feed.

ARGH.  I thought online disk space was getting cheaper. Is SourceForge really still growing so fast it needs not just misleading ads on its download pages, but trust-compromising installers as well?

Anyhow, at Jotti, two hits from the FileZilla server installer:

2014-12-10 PUA.Spyware.XPCSpyProโ€‹
2014-12-10 Win32/InstallCore.TM potentially unwanted



Not sure how bad that is, but I'm looking for another installer at this point.

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posted by ruffin at 12/10/2014 09:04:00 AM
Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Using FTPS from C#

The Alex FTPS Client isn't too bad.  I enjoyed reading its exchange with my local FileZilla server.

(000018)11/5/2013 9:23:05 AM - joe.dirt (::1)> CLNT AlexFTPS
(000018)11/5/2013 9:23:05 AM - joe.dirt (::1)> 200 Don't care

Ouch. ;^)

Other than a small problem with FileZilla Server that I worked around (quickly and dirtily -- btw, that's a link to the patches page, though the project seems in stasis. The guy is still around, and there are recent twitter posts on his company page, but not much on the FTPS front. If the patch is gone, though, that's probably why -- integrated or erased), the FTPS package seems to work well.

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posted by ruffin at 11/05/2013 09:24:00 AM
Monday, September 23, 2013

SourceForge installer includes "offers" now

Learn More About Software Offers - SourceForge.net:

At installation time you'll be prompted to consider one or more third-party offers, which youโ€™re under no obligation to accept. However, we hope youโ€™ll consider it, because by doing that you'll make possible for us to share advertising revenues with those projects.

(This is from my latest download of FileZilla -- "Transmit, when are you going xplat?" he asked wistfully.  ;^D)

Even in the age of GitHub, I like SourceForge.  You know [okay okay, you don't; I could upload any zip I want to SF if I want] simply by virtue of the URL what you're getting -- open source software.  But I hate this sort of forced spam.  Java/Oracle has been doing it lately too, which the "opt in" checkboxes clicked, so a Nexter is in trouble.

Java's is classless.  SF's is close.  They have Decline buttons in SF's and there is a nice link asking, "Why am I seeing this?" that hits the page, above, but I really don't like the way cash has invaded installation of f/Free software.

It might be micropayment/fundraising time for SF?  I don't know, but I do know that I hate this.

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posted by ruffin at 9/23/2013 10:56:00 AM

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