January 12, 201214 yr Hi I have been using Filezilla and keep getting viruis on my websites. After some research it I found out that it is easy to get into the Filezilla PW. So please recommend somethign for me, freeware is ideal. If not then why it is worth it to pay. Thank you
January 12, 201214 yr FTP is insecure by design anyway. Are you talking about an FTP server that you're running on a remote host (your "website") or you're concerned about file transfers when uploading files to your webserver via FTP. if it's for file transfers from your host to your webserver, then use sftp if possible. (what's the remote OS?) if you're running an FTP server then please specify the OS.
January 12, 201214 yr Author Hmm that all sounds just to technical for me.. I use both computer, mac and pc as in the title.. I just need to upload page or make changes to exisiting pages on my websites.
January 12, 201214 yr When using a Mac, you can't beat Transmit. It's not free though, but well worth the money in my opinion. It also supports SFTP and a host of other protocols and it has the neat little feature which allows you to mount remote hosts, allowing easy access through Finder.
January 12, 201214 yr Author When using a Mac, you can't beat Transmit. It's not free though, but well worth the money in my opinion. It also supports SFTP and a host of other protocols and it has the neat little feature which allows you to mount remote hosts, allowing easy access through Finder. I did read in the mac forums tht Transmit was teh best but I just dont think I am tech enough to take advantage of the features as I have no idea what mounting a hoste means.
January 12, 201214 yr seems to be more likely that you got infected because of a vuln in your website than someone sniffing your password during FTP transfers. how did you setup your webserver and where do you host it?
January 12, 201214 yr Hi I have been using Filezilla and keep getting viruis on my websites More likely to be security holes on your websites. If you are running any kind of popular software on your sites (Joomla, osCommerce, Wordpress etc..) then you can be 99% sure that's where the virus' are coming from; not someone hacking your FTP passwords.
January 12, 201214 yr Filezilla will only transfer what you have on your computer and it sound to me as though you are sending the viruses yourself. What anti-virus sw do you use? I use Filezilla, the sftp setting, to transfer files to and from my seedbox and have not experienced any problems
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