FileZilla

FileZilla is a set of computer programs for file transfer via FTP and SFTP. It is offered as a free software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Versions

FileZilla client

FileZilla Client is running on the operating systems Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP or higher. The program supports the network protocols FTP and SFTP. It is free software and is licensed under the GPL. The upload and download can be controlled via drag and drop.

The source code of FileZilla and its translations for the most common operating systems are provided at SourceForge. SourceForge FileZilla lifted in November 2003, especially out by the program was named Project of the Month. In addition, the FileZilla SourceForge.net Community Choice Award winner in the category network. Since the start of the project, the software has been downloaded over 81 million times on SourceForge.

Partly also components of PuTTY are used for the server connections.

Revision history

Since version 2.2.23 FileZilla is based on Unicode, making it no longer is compatible prior to Windows XP with the Windows versions.

With version 3 FileZilla has been rewritten from the ground up and is based on wxWidgets.

Since version 3.0.4, the use of FTP proxy servers is possible.

Up to version 3.0.9 Windows NT and 2000 were supported. The precompiled files for Mac OS X set Mac OS X 10.5 ( Leopard) requires 10.4 (Tiger) and older require manual compilation.

Security

The problem is that the FileZilla client credentials for the FTP server stores on each FTP connection on the client computer. These credentials are (among user name and password ) is stored in XML files in plain text so that they can be easily spied by third parties or by malicious software.

FileZilla Portable

FileZilla Portable by John T. Haller and the FileZilla development team enables the computer- comprehensive deployment using a USB mass storage device or any other portable media. This output can without installation on different computers such as alternate on the laptop, office and home computers are used. It can be unzipped directly to a portable data carrier and is available from the latter (see also portable software ).

FileZilla Server

In addition to the FTP client, there is also an FTP server. FileZilla Server (current version: 0.9.43 January 2, 2014) enables the operation of an FTP server and is a separate program for Windows, which is developed by the same project. Apart from a simple user and group management software TLS encryption, Up-/Downloadraten-Beschränkungen globally and per user and the ability to restrict connections to specific IP addresses on both client as on the server side features. A so-called remote admin interface allows for the maintenance of other computers.

Criticism

Since August 2013 contains the executable FileZilla installer Adware third party. The installer loads during installation unsolicited third-party content of external sites down, nor Tim Kosse have control over neither SourceForge, so that these vendors can no longer guarantee the safety of the download. Due to the changes to the installer also published by Kosse hash values ​​do not allow the application offered for download in agreement, so that the authenticity of the application itself can not be verified.