Security :: Safe Sites To Download From?

Jun 11, 2011

How do you know if a site is safe to download from ?
Have only been using Mint 11 for 3 days after 7 years with windows and the usual safety nets there were the https headings and firewalls blocking stuff but how do you know something is safe in Linux ?
In short how do you know it's a trusted site ?

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Feb 9, 2011

In the past week or so I've noticed some weird network behaviour. I find accessing some sites such as Amazon, Paypal, and Bigstockphoto really slow. Sometimes the page will not load at all. Other sites are fine. The problem sites are not a problem for others on my LAN at home. When I try to open the problem sites, I can see in Firestarter blocked connections coming from 2.1(8/9).xxx.xxx on various ports such as 36007. This only happens for the problem sites. I attached a typical output from firestarter.

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Jan 5, 2011

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Mar 2, 2010

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Jul 17, 2010

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Mar 1, 2010

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Feb 6, 2010

Example I have 3 user list and 3 file with block site names

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I've moved your post here to its own thread. Please don't resurrect dead threads. --win32sux

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Dec 14, 2010

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Apr 5, 2010

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Jul 22, 2010

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Apr 15, 2010

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