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Sourceforge Bundles MALWARE!!!

A few people I know were trying to get filezilla FTP from sourceforge and recently since Dice took over SF, a lot of software from that site has malware bundled with it in the installer.They no longer give you a normal installer, instead it's a custom one with adware that still gets installed EVEN IF YOU OPT OUT! Lots of anti-virus clients are even blocking the installers from even being executed. I recommend going with GITHUB or MS's codeplex What's worse is devs like filezilla DEFEND this decision! Check out the thread here:  https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=32945 It's very bad that the dev of one of many projects hosted on sourceforge DEFENDS this and they think it's "no biggie" if people get infected! Intead of hosting elsewhere they defend a bad choice. Instead of on the users side they keep with a bad host. Many devs are choosing to do this and I will be compiling a list of known applications from SF you should avoid du...