xeon wrote:
You were obviously infected with some type of malware so why are you blaming filezilla?
It sounds like you should be blaming yourself for not keeping your pc secure and having good practices.
Just think about it if you were never infected none of that would have happened to begin with...
Even if botg implemented some type of encryption on passwords malware creators would just use a different way to harvest passwords such as keylogging or sniffing your network traffic.
Agree with Spooky, same silly arguments as usual. Did you read my previous posts ?
My PC is secure as well as my practices, however no one is protected from bad luck and bad timing. That's what happened to me.
As a summary for those who do not read previous posts :
I had bad luck, was infected, detected it, cleaned it thouroughly, and now I'm fine.
Let's count the casualties :
- Filezilla managed websites : all hacked whithin the hour
- Non-filezilla managed website : not hacked (yes, none).
- All ftp passwords changed anyway.
xeon wrote:
Even if botg implemented some type of encryption on passwords malware creators would just use a different way to harvest passwords such as keylogging or sniffing your network traffic.
Yeah you're right ! The harder botg thinks, the harder they have to think, and the harder it is in the end. Too bad FZ does team does not want to make it harder for hackers, because for now it's damn too simple.
I have never been infected with malware and none of my filezilla passwords have ever been compromised even though they are stored in plaintext.
I'm sure many others who have good practices can say the same.
You're just lucky, that's all. There are vulnerabilities in nearly every adobe product, especially flash and acrobat. It's enough to have the wrong version and visit the wrong website at the wrong time. Hacked websites are usually detected and blocked within minutes or hours, but if you're unlucky you get infected even if you have an up-to-date antivirus and firewall active. And when I say "wrong version", I mean : even the latest available could be, at one time, the wrong version. I always keep up to date but when I was hacked the lastest acrobat reader had THE vulnerability.