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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...

MALWARE WARNING:Bettersurf This addon for both firefox and google chrome has been installing itself randomly on lots of systems. Even those that have only gone to a limited amount of websites.  This malware/addon appeared on my sister's chrome install today.  Some developers that have workstations that only go on thier company's sites and development related sites have reported this addon installed itself. There are lots of other reports of this from various users on various configurations.  Firefox reports: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/977507 StackExchange reports: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/que...s-malware?lq=1 http://webapps.stackexchange.com/que...efox-extension Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1ql6tx/ UPDATE!!! I have found an anti virus client that was able to delete the source file where this malware came from called updater.exe and I am an affiliate of them so I am able ...