[Gllug] Trojans and social engineering

[Gordon Joly]

On 15/08/2010 11:08, Martyn Drake wrote:
> Gordon Joly wrote on 15 August 2010 10:15:
>
>    
>> Well, yes. I had a small problem with a user level break in, via the
>>      
> Coppermine Gallery package
>    
>> which Fantastico had not given me the option upgrade to the latest
>>      
> security patch) so that I had
>    
>> to upgrade manually in the end.
>>      
> I wouldn't touch Fantastico with a barge pole, to be honest.  It's a good
> idea, but I cannot begin to tell you how much trouble it brings when the
> package becomes out of date or it's discovered that it has a security
> vulnerability.  They're just not fast enough.
>
> I'd rather see developers of these individual packages develop a better and
> more user-friendly (albeit with security in mind as well) installer for
> their products then let a third party script installer try to do
> *everything*.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martyn
>
>
>    
I tend to agree. Just not fast enough.

Gordo

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