SourceForge is Evil!
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Ug, I know this isn't news... but damn SourceForge and their new droppers!
I just installed Filezilla - which the only download link I could get from their page was for SF - it installed Chromium, Opera and a shortcut for Facebook.
WTF!
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Well that's quite the change from the past.
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SourceForge has been circling the ethical drain for a while now
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I noticed some garbage the last time I installed filezilla as well. PITA.
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you have to be very careful with what you download there.
I thought we talked about it here back when it happened. but search sucks..
Here is another site's article on it.
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/01/sourceforge-adds-and-removes-adware-installers-to-abandoned-projects/ -
There is a reason that uBlock does this..
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Install via Chocolatey instead.
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I was able to get a clean download of Filezilla last time that I went there. But it took two tries. Not sure what I got wrong the first time.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I was able to get a clean download of Filezilla last time that I went there. But it took two tries. Not sure what I got wrong the first time.
yeah the first install I pulled was the dropper - but that's not the same. This time I pulled the Zip file.
I was hoping someone might download it themselves using the link I provided and see what they get?
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oh, sad to hear that, almost all of my download are from sourceforge, can website like this include ransmware in the downloaded software ???
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@IT-ADMIN said:
oh, sad to hear that, almost all of my download are from sourceforge, can website like this include ransmware in the downloaded software ???
Very possible. Relatively unlikely as they would never have customers again, but it could happen. Bloatware is very likely, though.
