Reviews of UltraFXP

1. 
   reets

   Reviewing 1.07 (Aug 23, 2008)

   Still the best ftp client out there that I have found.
2. 
   mcolgin

   Reviewing 1.07 (Jul 7, 2008)

   BPFTP Server/Client are way better: http://www.bpftp.com
3. 
   santaklawz

   Reviewing 1.07 (Apr 12, 2005)

   Hi!
   Mr cricri_pingouin is quite right, as soon as you launch ultrafxp 1.07 it tries to contact a specific ip which belongs to or used to belong to www.ultrafxp.com, now after running some network diags on it I figured out it was sending a request for version.txt on a website that no longer exists, so it's clearly checking for updates...Now, since it seems to me that this program will never be upgraded (since it's been sold to another company and now goes by the name of FTPrush, looks like a superb product to me but it costs money)....also, if you look under options/general there is an option to toggle this check for new versions, once you turn it off it no longer tries to connect anywhere..
   So, in summary this program seems a lot safer to use than flashfxp and seems to work just as well..
   word of warning, I would never use a program like flashfxp which has been shown to send out encrypted packets of information containing god-knows-what about you...also for regular ftp clients I use bulletproof ftp and it's a superb program although nowadays you can get smartftp, filezilla, and ultrafxp for free if you're a personal user so it seems harder and harder to sell this type of stuff...
   I had one major issue with this s/w, it would not connect properly to ssl encrypted ftpds, smartftp works fine on that but this one chokes so I'm giving it a 4 instead of a 5....really should be a 3.5 for having broken ssl stuff..but there's no choice for 3.5 here..
4. 
   cricri_pingouin

   Reviewing 1.07 (Apr 23, 2004)

   Hello people!
   I tried UltraFXP because since v1.07 it is free, and sounds like a great alternative to FlashFXP. I was not heading towards UFXP because it's free, but rather to avoid DeWeese abusing policies concerning unexplained packets/phoning home "features".
   Unfortunately, first time I tried UFXP, ZoneAlarm warned me that it was trying to connect somewhere just as the program was launched, so before I even had the opportunity to genuinely ask it to indeed connect somewhere!
   Now I might sound paranoid, but after posting a couple posts on this matter on the UFXP forum... well, I didn't get a chance to have answers since my posts got deleted!
   Thus, I believe there is something very fishy going on, and I would appreciate feedback from any other users around. It's really weird because the address ZoneAlarm refers to is a local address at my uni (even though I never came across this IP before), but at the same time, why would people delete my posts on UFXP forums if there is a valid answer and nothing to worry about?
   I'm puzzled and will gladly receive any feedback/comments/suggestions from you people.
   Cheers :)
5. 
   nulke

   Reviewing 1.07 (Mar 30, 2004)

   The author is now offering UltraFXP v1.07 as freeware. An explanation on author's website.

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