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.
This happens with Firfeox or Chrome. Using Ubuntu 10.10
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May 31, 2010
How to repartition a hard drive using Mepis 3.3, none of the listed sites will open to me. Is this the best software to repartition a new Windows 7 hard drive? I notice there are later versions of the Mepis software.
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Jan 5, 2011
I have just installed fedora 14 for 2 weeks. After installing the Tetom plugin I can't download video and Mp3 files from my desired sites. When I enter to those sites a Plug-in (which I'm not sure that is it related to Tetom or not) starts and tries to play that video or MP3. But before installing that pliging I didn't have this problem and when I press on download link, It opened a pop-up window and asked for downloading and saving location. However I unistalled that pluging but my problem doesn't solve. I attached two pictures. The first picture shows a page which when I'm going to download a movei it goes to a "Code Page" and I can not download !! and the second one shows when I'm trying to download a Mp3 file. As you can see in the second picture there is a new Icon at the left hand of Greasemonkey Icon which i think problem is with that one !
The link which I wanted to download is here, I tried with windows 7 , I can download with windows but in fedora is unable to download !
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May 10, 2011
I originally tried using a torrent download to try and get a DVD ISO image. When I tried to copy the image to a DVD, my software said something about the file not being supported and the file vanished from the download location.
So now I have tried looking for just an ISO file instead of a torrent file and when I try to download it my browser just hangs, I get the "Save" or "Open" option and choose "Save", nothing happens. The option window blanks out.
So how do I download a DVD ISO image for CentOS 5?
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Mar 2, 2010
I am using two operating systems, Ubuntu and Mandriva, problem I can not download the updates from the main sites. On Ubuntu I changed the mirror site and worked fine. [URL]. I have already posted two sites already about this. How can the main mirror update site on Mandriva been changed.
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Jul 17, 2010
I went to create a windows XP in my virtualbox and this pops up
Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root.
is this a safe download? its never asked me too do this before.
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Mar 1, 2010
How do I add them so they show up and I can use them in GIMP?
Also, what are some good sites to download fonts from?
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Feb 24, 2011
I've been searching this forum and the rest of the web for days now for a good software for a CLI Debian installation that will take links to file sharing sites such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, Uploading, DepositFiles etc and download them when possible (wait for timer to run out and so on).The only thing i've found so far is Slimrat but i dont seem to get it working with WWW::Mechanize even after trying to update it through CPAN
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Jun 25, 2010
I have got him to use ubuntu 10 which he loves but he is skeptical about the software in ubuntu software centre.How can I appease his concerns?Presumably all open source software in the download centre is safe?
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Dec 13, 2009
When I use the BBC site, I see messages "Cannot play media.You do not have the correct version of the flash player. Download the correct version"..However, when I go to Applications > Ubuntu Software Centre, I get the message, "Adobe Flash Player is installed on this computer. It is used by 1 piece of installed software"If I try to use the Firefox Adobe add-ins feature, I'm directed to the Adobe page. Is it safe to use this feature rather than, for example, Synaptic Package Manager?
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May 1, 2010
How can i download free pen drive virus scanner? I need good one? Most of computer gets attacked by viruses through flash drives or usb drives or pendrives. If we can scan and delete it before using it we can make our computer safe.
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Dec 5, 2010
I am using Fedora on my desktop pc. I want to know how can i protact my PC from outside world. What firewall policy should i implement in iptables to keep it more secure.
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Jun 17, 2011
I want block https sites if suppose block the http it will opening in https.
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Feb 6, 2010
Example I have 3 user list and 3 file with block site names
acl group1 src 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.4/24
acl group2 src 192.168.0.5 192.168.0.6 192.168.0.7/24
acl group3 src 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.9 192.168.0.10/24
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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
I'm currently running OpenSuSE 11.3. I'm afraid as newer versions are released they will demand more of my old PC (Dell Optiplex GX270). Also, I've heard of issues with newer Linux distributions having issues with older Intel hardware (just hearsay, not personal experience). However, patches for specific OpenSuSE releases have a limited window of time.So,
Am I much more at risk to security issues if I keep a version of Linux past its patch date?Is it possible to keep a specific Linux release but still be able to receive security essential updates based on my repository selection?
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Nov 12, 2010
It seems to me that he passwords kept in GNU Keyring Seahorse, are not kept very safe, because if I'm logged in and someone access my cumputer they can see my passwords that are saved there. I have set a keyring password, but it seems that is it not all the time locked.What are some general follow guide rulles to make sure my passwords are kept safe and my encryption keys that I use.
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Jun 14, 2010
Other than Firestarter, how safe is it to use an iptables firewall for Linux if you know the basics of iptables but not the details and not exactly what you're doing with iptables? I want to be very secure without configuring iptables myself if possible or doing as little as possible. If you don't think iptables is safe if you don't really know what you're doing, which firewall you can use (Slackware specific, preferably) that is the easiest to install and configure? Are there any that work like free Windows firewalls, other than Firestarter? I've looked around and looked at slackbuild and can't find a Firestarter package, I searched this site also and saw something about the reason there isn't one. I'm concerned with my security and I don't want to write my own iptables firewall - I don't fully know what I'm doing.
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Sep 14, 2010
I want to check if traffic to a specific URL is being throttled by a hospital acting as an ISP. A client is having great trouble accessing a hosted web-app from inside the hospital, but access is fine from outside. The hospital IT dept are not interested as the rest of the Internet is fine. I need to trace where the latency is creeping in or where the throttling is happening, if I can do that, the hospital will remove it. Traffic is standard http to a specific URL.
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Apr 5, 2010
I have a problem with sites or domain blocking by squid proxy server in rehl 5. I have trying lots of time but i'm not succed.pls help me how to block sites or domain in rhel 5.
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Sep 29, 2010
When I go to the Runesacpe page to run the game I get a message that says that the aplit is not signed.
Is it safe to run.
Does anyone know what it does, other than just run the game?
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Jul 13, 2011
I just found a neat way to encrypt a file in Ubuntu 10.04.
I right click on a file and select the Encrypt option. The program prompts me to "Choose Recipient" so I choose myself on the list. Then it prompts me to enter my passphrase.
Once all that's done I hit enter and it adds .pgp to the end of whatever file just encrypted. The same basic method is used to Sign the file.
Does it sound as though what I said is correct and that the file I wanted to encrypt was indeed encrypted?
Can anyone crack my files without the passphrase? I'm sure it depends on the complexity and length of the passphrase.
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Jan 3, 2010
A new open source package called Lightning Rod will help to close security exploits in Adobe's dirty Flash code. A presentation made at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress showed that the package does its job by reviewing incoming code before the browser executes it. Heise Online is reporting that this method can block over 20 different known attacks and can even be used to filter out malicious JPG attacks. As more vulnerabilities are discovered they can be added to Lightning Rod to close the breach.
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Sep 8, 2010
when I apply port forwarding to my router @ home? Is it a risk to every computer on the network or just specifically the server that is involved?
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Sep 24, 2010
I opened a specific port in my router and manually configured Limewire to use the same port for all traffic, but I notice when I disable and turn off Firestarter when on limewire, my searches go really fast and dowaloads zoom really fast also I am not running as root. Is this ok to temporarly stop the firewall when I am on Limewire and then turn it back on when finished?
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Apr 19, 2011
I would like to know if you guys think this is a safe plugin/extension to use with either Chromium or Firefox.
There is an old page that shows it had security issues in the past.[URL].. Would it be safe to use this or do you think someone could use it to steal my passwords, etc. while browsing?
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Jul 17, 2011
how safe is it to run Ubuntu updates when I'm connecting via a public network (wireless or wired) from a hotel (or other public settings). I'm not familiar with the internals but is there an additional validation mechanism for the package servers other than the URL ?
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Jul 22, 2010
I have setup a squid server on Rhel5.4. I would like to know how I can configure my squid server to block anon proxy sites.
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Apr 15, 2010
So I know Linux has iptables, I'm rather new to linux, and I'm wondering, are the stock settings with Ubuntu/Kubuntu safe? Is there anything I need to do make them more secure? I tried adding rules myself for some things but ended up just not being able to do anything so I had to reset back to stock with iptables -F. Should I be safe running as-is?
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Jul 10, 2010
What if someone tampered with some important security updates, and suddenly you get a rootkit instead?
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