>Is there any suggestion that could increase the security of file that are >currently retrived via FTP?
>I have been told that there is suppose to be secure FTP (SFTP?) in Windows, >but can not find anything about it.
>Does the security implementations have to come from the company hosting the >FTP site or can you do it from the client?

I have a couple of clients that use WS_FTP - www.wsftp.com - just in case you do not find SFTP or what you were looking for.

--rab