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Kaspersky: Biden administration preparing to prevent Americans from using Russian-made software over national security concern | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So just to illustrate, I went to the normal FileZilla download page and downloaded the Win64 package. Then I submitted it to VirusTotal.

https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=win64#close

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dbde8a4bd71bb1fbc0511cdb657dfeffdaedc513aa425f856043532a7cba6fce

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

If you click other versions, there are installers without the adware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

filezilla has an opencandy installer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

As someone who has used FileZilla for years, I am shook and I appreciate you pasting the link