Install Key Safe

[Nazarena Lugg]

Thegood news about stability is that if you get a wonky application in either it is contained and will not make the rest of your system unstable by installing libraries that cause conflicts with other installed apps.

Both are self-contained applications with all the needed information to run. This is what makes this distro-agnostic and allows them to be installed on any Linux system that supports them (flatpak or snap)

Snaps only have the official repo. There was one reported case of malware getting into the repo but it was caught quickly and removed. It was cryptocurrency mining software that would send some mined currency back to the app maintainers without the users knowledge. Even with that there was no other ill effect from the app and AFAIK, it was unable to access the home folder of the user.

Flatpaks: If you use the official repo it should have about the same security as Snaps, nothing is perfect but anything that makes it in will be very quickly noticed and removed if it is malware and made it past the initial submission review.

I would personally doubt that anything overtly malware like a virus would make it into either Snap's or Flatpak's repos and anything with sneaky unwanted behavior like the aforementioned cryptocurrency mining app would stay in very long.

Overall I would say that both are safe but neither is as inherently safe as the official Ubuntu sources, but this goes for PPAs as well. Adding any sources outside of Ubuntu's official sources is not quite as safe.

I do have to add a caveat here, there are other Flatpak repos out there. Most of these are for legitimate programs that just want to host their own repo rather than use flathub. Those are completely outside any quality control of flathub and should only be added if you trust the developers of the program. This would also go for adding snap repos but I don't think that at this time there are any but the official Snap repos.

Both are a great way for users to have a safe (as safe as can be expected outside a distro's official package sources) way to install software that are not available any other way and have them "just work".

For example, I have Spotify installed as a Snap and Teamspeak 3 installed as a flatpak. While Spotify is available via a ppa, using a snap allows me to avoid cluttering apt with PPA that I can avoid using.

I would suspect that reason the PPA completely hosed your Ubuntu install is because it brought in newer libraries as dependencies that your native programs were unable to use or overwrote your installed libraries with older ones that were too outdated to be used by your native Ubuntu.

The good thing about both snaps and Flatpaks is that they will bring in any libraries they need to run inside their own folders. Snaps and Flatpaks are self-contained and will not touch any of your system files or libraries.

The disadvantage to this is that the programs might be bigger than a non snap or Flatpak version but the trade off is that you don't have to worry about it affecting anything else, not even other snaps or Flatpak. If the app is broken because it brought in bad libraries or for any other reason you just uninstall it and it is completely gone.

metasploit, like all other software, can introduce vulnerabilities as a result of the underlying components that make it work, the database listener and Ruby service are installed as well as a web framework depending on the version installed. If your computer is not adequately protected or new exploits are found for this software, it may be possible to compromise your machine. This is an inherent risk of installing any software.

many antivirus solutions will detect metasploit modules and exploits and prevent them from running by placing them quarantine. If you have AV installed you'll need to provide exceptions for it which is, overall, reducing your effective security.

In summary, it depends on what you define as safe. If the above risks are acceptable, go ahead. The metasploit framework is well renowned and as far as anyone knows, isn't backdoored in any way. Assuming you download it directly from rapid7 I would imagine there would be no issues.

I'd recommend that you don't install Metasploit on your work computer. To make Metasploit run without issues, it's recommended that you switch off your firewall and anti-virus, which may not be a good idea for your production system. My recommendation: Install Metasploit on a virtual machine (e.g. VirtualBox) in Bridged Mode (so the payloads can connect back). Ubuntu seems to work great and doesn't require a license.

HI today I went into intel driver & Support Assisant I waited for it to scan my dell laptop. Today it came up with a Graphics driver for my laptop. So I let it download first and then I pushed on the installation wizard. Then after the terms screen I pushed next. The next screen showed what the intel graphics intaller was going to install. It said it was going to install the graphics driver, intel command center. What I want to now is whether I should check the box to excute a clean install. Is it safe to do this I do not want to mess up my dell laptop.

In your case, my advise is not to check the "clean install" box. By doing this your currently installed driver will be uninstalled and you will loose the ability to roll back driver in case that the new one will not function correctly. You should be aware (this is also explained in the Detailed Description on the Driver Download page) , that this is Intel Generic Driver and you may loose all customization prepared by the OEM for your laptop. Therefore, it is advised to use graphics drivers from the OEM site.

You should not describe your problem in this thread, since you may have other computer. Any way, if your computer works OK, in my opinion you may disregard this Windows Update errors. Those are Optional Updates and better to disable it. Download and install Drivers from the OEM site rather than from Windows. The Microsoft Catalog is not always updated.

I use windows Insider, so I usually update my computer and I don't want to be incapable to do so. Am just asking if I can use sfc /scannow or DISM /Online to fix it because I saw online that the Error is either "missing files in the Windows Update or Windows Update can't locate the Microsoft Software License Terms". So am assuming It's the first one.

I didn't wrote "you should not describe your problem here" but I wrote "You should not describe your problem in this thread, since you may have other computer." This some one else thread with other problem, other hardware and could be other solution. So, I meant to say that you should open a new thread.

Intel does not verify all solutions, including but not limited to any file transfers that may appear in this community. Accordingly, Intel disclaims all express and implied warranties, including without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, as well as any warranty arising from course of performance, course of dealing, or usage in trade.

I have an HP Stream 14" Laptop, Intel Celeron N3060 Processor, 4GB RAM and I decided I wanted to get Zorin Lite. I downloaded Zorin OS 15.3 Lite on my pc and plugged in a new 16gb DataStick PRO Usb 2.0 and flashed the Zorin Lite file into the USB. Everything seemed to work well, I put the USB into my laptop (while it was shutdown), started my laptop and kept pressing f11, chose usb and it started zorin. Then 4 options showed up:

If you look to the left side of the screen. you see a shortcut named "Install Zorin OS 15.3", I double pressed that and it started the installation process. At the end of the installation, an error code came up saying "the 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install zorin os". I honestly dont know what to do. I looked at other peoples questions which were similar but nothing could help me.

The report you pasted states: isolinux.bin missing or corrupt

This often points to the USB stick or port. Have you tried using a different USB drive, Port?

If so, you may need to go into BIOS settings and change USB Flash Drive Emulation Type to Hard Disk.

So I chose the 32bit instead of the 64 beacause I thought it would run more smoothly. When I was doing the installation, it didn't really ask me for a device. I did erase choose an option during an installation that said: "delete disk and install zorin" if thats what your asking

I want to download zorin on the last one with 15519mb in space. so I right clicked it, and pressed add, switched the "Use As" to "Ext4 journaling file system" and chose the mount point to "/". I also switched the "device for boot loader" to the usb. everything was perfefct and it should have worked, but it said: "No EFI System Partition was found. This system will likely not be able to boot successfully, and the installation process may fail. Please go back and add an EFI System Partition, or continue at your own risk.

No, there are no third-party checks on the code that is uploaded to PyPI (the Python Package Index, which is where pip downloads packages unless explicitly instructed otherwise). The only restriction is that once a package name exists, only the maintainer(s) can upload packages with that name (i.e. you can't submit a malicious upgrade to someone else's package using the same name). It is up to the maintainer to ensure that whatever they make available on PyPI doesn't contain malware, unless they intend for it to be malware, and it is up to each individual developer to be aware of what they are downloading using pip.

This has been exploited in a research project investigating "typosquatting". The researcher uploaded some "simulation malware" (mostly harmless) to PyPI under names that were misspelled versions of popular package names, in order to collect data on how often these misspelled packages were installed. If a black-hat hacker had done the same thing, they could have used much more malicious code.

3a8082e126