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This was discussed on Reddit after Sourceforge announced the new installer three weeks ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jk1gz/sourcefor... , several users confirmed the crapware in the installers.

I mentioned on Reddit that the Ask digital signature shows in the UAC dialog.

It appears to be some opt in program called DevShare.

Here's a link to the filezilla forums where the dev team appears to be justifying its use: https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3024...

http://sourceforge.net/blog/today-we-offer-devshare-beta-a-s...

http://sourceforge.net/devshare/why

No, I don't think it's OS sniffing since downloading the windows version of for example Filezilla doesn't allow you to change mirror and as the article explained, downloads from some other url than Sourceforge (or a mirror).

I'm on OSX and when downloading the windows version from the repository, I get the same file as the author. Try it yourself here and download the .exe: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/files/FileZilla_Cl...