[eluser]Jay Turley[/eluser]
Okay, I got you.
Our host, of course, is running an FTP server.
I am personally running Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop (at least until tonight when I upgrade to 9.10) and am NOT running an FTP server on it. I am however running Apache and MySQL with nice strong firewall rules to block everything in or out except for port 80. My router is firewalled too.