Most of the
WinTel FTP market is
owned by
CuteFTP and WS_FTP. The
GUI-based design of CuteFTP is geared towards folks that want to just have the program work with little input. For those with
curiosity, there is a very thourough user-configurable
option screen.
When CuteFTP was released, the owners had installed Aureate Media's advertising system. It secretly sent information out and received advertising information. I believe it was classified as spyware. If you installed versions 3.0 to 4.0, CuteFTP installed the spyware system without the knowledge of the user. If you uninstalled CuteFTP, it left the spyware, which continued to operate. Globalscape took major public-relations hits for using spyware, installing the spyware such that it was hidden from the user, and not uninstalling the spyware if you removed CuteFTP.
Globalscape has apparently stopped this practice.