Filezilla - has a virus?
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Anyone willing to help me out?
I've managed to download the zip for Filezilla from SourceForge without the damned SF dropper.
When I try to install it on Windows 10, puts up
This link downloads the ZIP file directly - no dropper. Unless the Filezilla exe has a PUP in it, it should be clean.
I've scanned it with Panda AV and uploaded it to totalvirus.net and they both say it's clean. Before I bypass this prompt and install anyway, anyone else thing of something more i should do? -
Is that one of the sourceforge installers with the tag along applications?
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Webroot catches add on crap as PUPs sometimes, maybe that's what it sees.
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This is the ZIP file - no droppers here.
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What about installing directly via Chocolatey?
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@scottalanmiller said:
What about installing directly via Chocolatey?
I haven't even looked at what it takes to manage that yet.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
What about installing directly via Chocolatey?
I haven't even looked at what it takes to manage that yet.
You type: cinstall filezilla
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Or just
choco install filezilla -
OK I'm going off topic for a moment.
Isn't the whole point of Chocolatey central management? Central management through scripting it really looks like (no nice and easy GUI).
Also, call me old fashion, but I really dislike that Chocolatey installs into it's own directory, not the Programs Files directory. So now I have another directory that I need to at minimum set permissions on, at worst, manage.
Something cool that I learned at SpiceWorld was that GP's can be used to not allow execution of files outside designated directories. So locking these directories down from user write access, and limiting which ones can execute, really helps secure the system.
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@Dashrender said:
Isn't the whole point of Chocolatey central management? Central management through scripting it really looks like (no nice and easy GUI).
Yup, it is about moving Windows into the 1990s finally. It fills in the massive gap in package management that Windows has been missing.
You can always add a GUI to it but... why?
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@Dashrender said:
Also, call me old fashion, but I really dislike that Chocolatey installs into it's own directory, not the Programs Files directory. So now I have another directory that I need to at minimum set permissions on, at worst, manage.
Just one directly. Windows makes it two as it is.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Also, call me old fashion, but I really dislike that Chocolatey installs into it's own directory, not the Programs Files directory. So now I have another directory that I need to at minimum set permissions on, at worst, manage.
Just one directly. Windows makes it two as it is.
I'm assuming you mean Windows and Program Files?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Also, call me old fashion, but I really dislike that Chocolatey installs into it's own directory, not the Programs Files directory. So now I have another directory that I need to at minimum set permissions on, at worst, manage.
Just one directly. Windows makes it two as it is.
I'm assuming you mean Windows and Program Files?
No, I meant the two Program Files directories, as there isn't just one unless you are running 32bit.
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@scottalanmiller said:
No, I meant the two Program Files directories, as there isn't just one unless you are running 32bit.
Yeah I did forget about that - never really understood the reason for that split - the users sure the heck don't care!
