The posts about how there are other risks from malware and keyloggers is true enough. I never claimed that avoiding filezilla would make the Windows system secure. But if you have your doors and windows open, and want to reduce the chance of theft, then I'd say filezilla is like a patio door wide open on the scale of opportunities and the prevalence of the exploit.
The prevalence of a risk and the ease of executing the exploit is what matters first. Whether it is possible to do something else matters, but less. The greatest risk is with what is currently happening in high frequency and has a high likelihood of reoccurring. Debian Security Advisory doesn't have this, but Redhat and Malware advisories rank threats in terms of ease of execution, popularity in the wild and severity of the damage which could result. In my work place, people have thanked me for this warning. Even IT people who work Information Systems are glad to know of this risk and did not know of it before. In the workplace, people use Windows and Unix. They do not have the luxury of being as dogmatic as some Linux users. They are mostly interested in working practically. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+AKB6HRWca7xrB7YRD3i4=fvyhusg74hmcj7ckgtx2wxek...@mail.gmail.com
