{"id":104,"date":"2009-12-10T06:48:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/ubuntu-only-install-from-official-repositories\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T06:48:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:48:32","slug":"ubuntu-only-install-from-official-repositories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/ubuntu-only-install-from-official-repositories\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu &#8211; only install from official repositories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know there is a trojan running around that is installed via screen-saver via a .deb install.&nbsp; More <a href=\"http:\/\/kubuntuforums.net\/forums\/index.php?topic=3108724\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxformat.co.uk\/forums\/viewtopic.php?p=82029&amp;sid=5efd7efc945dad77588626c2235760fd\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The safest way to install anything on your machine is via the Official Repositories using apt-get, Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Centre.&nbsp; If you do need to install anything that is not in the Official Repositories, then make sure it is from a Repository you know and trust.&nbsp; This also go if you install via .deb, ensure you know where that .deb comes from.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu is getting famous and popular so it is getting attacked just like Windows.&nbsp; There is however one different thing in Ubuntu, those attacks need the assistance of the user to be installed so be careful what you install.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/screensaver\" rel=\"tag\">screensaver<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/trojan\" rel=\"tag\">trojan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know there is a trojan running around that is installed via screen-saver via a .deb install.&nbsp; More here and here. The safest way to install anything on your machine is via the Official Repositories using apt-get, Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Centre.&nbsp; If you do need to install anything that is not in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}