Marcel Birthelmer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Brent Brown<brent.brown@clear.net.nz> wrote:
>   
>> So for now I've changed the port number to a random 5 digit number in the range 0-
>> 65535. Also changed the virtual server/port routing in my router to suit. So far, no
>> intrusion attempts, but yet to see if there is any downside to this, assuming I will be
>> able access into the FTP server on any nominated port number? Comments and
>> suggestions welcomed, thanks.
>>     
>
> Some companies don't allow outgoing traffic to ports other than, say,
> 80 and a few other common ones, so picking a higher port may not work.
> Also, I would suggest you use SFTP instead of FTP. FileZilla can
> handle that also.
>   
For some reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftp#Security_problems

Another suggestion is ftps protocol that use SSL/TLS to encrypt the traffic.
You can handle it with FileZilla, TotalCommander or Firefox with the 
FireFtp addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684


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