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Free FTP Client for Windows

WinSCP is an open source free FTP client for Windows.

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When to use FTP?

While FTP is still the most widespread transfer protocol used to transfer files from one host to another over the Internet, it was not designed to be a secure protocol and has many security weaknesses. So use FTP only if the server does not support any secure transfer alternative.

Why to use WinSCP as an FTP client?

Well, there are many reasons, but one of them is for sure that WinSCP supports a variety of transfer protocols, so you can use one tool for both secure and insecure copying. Read more about the supported protocols.

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Last modified: by Petr