Adobe flashplayer secure installation?
 

Higuys, I think this is my first thread in many months, soooooo

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! lol

Let me explain what my question is about, I have a dualboot of Slackware + Debian, but now I have a problem on both when am trying to watch videos on YouTube, so I was wondering if there's a secure way I can install Adobe FlashPlayer on both Slackware and Debian or if there's an alternative to it.




greetings,
nattan

1. Download the latest version of adobe flash player tar.gz file: install_flash_player_linux_x86_64.tar.gz
2. lftp -c 'open ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...urrent/extra/; mirror -c -e flashplayer-plugin'
3. mv install_flash_player_linux_x86_64.tar.gz into flashplayer-plugin direcotry
4. rename package file name from install_flash_player_linux_x86_64.tar.gz into install_flash_player_11.2.202.336_linux_x86_64.tar.gz
5. edit flashplayer-plugin.SlackBuild: change version named to 11.2.202.336 (latest to date).
6. run sh flashplayer-pugin.SlackBuild
7. run upgradepkg --install-new /tmp/flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.336-x86_64-1alien.txz

just update my flash player yesterday. good luck

It depends upon what you mean by "secure" but if you just want to install Flash on Debian then you can install this package:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=flashplugin
Then, now and again (as root), run update-flashplugin-nonfree with either "--status" or "--install" flags to check whether it is up to date or install the latest respectively.

Alternatives are using HTML5, which sometimes works, and using a firefox extension that lets you download them or open them with a movie player. I much prefer these over the hopelessly insecure soon to be extinct flashplayer.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/02/1...ed-for-7-years

In fact, there is an awesome alternative. I use youtube-dl, which is a free and open source script that can download and save youtube videos locally. (Other sites such as The Daily Show may also work.) Especially for longer videos, this + mplayer or vlc beats the crap out of the kludge that is Flash, be it in the trojan or a free form.

Edit: holy crap, the latest version even does vimeo. ?i?s :study:

They are alternatives for some videos, yes, but not for video that's encrypted or for things like this:
http://fantasticcontraption.com/

The easiest way to get flashplayer is Alien Bob's package:
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac...player-plugin/

the matter is am getting a "little paranoid" with these many flash-based attacks and you know is not that am hiding state secrets or financial data of some sort but in some cases my Debian installation opens the CD-ROM by itself and the same just happened yesterday on my Slackware installation too.

I also want to know if there's a guide on how to detect security intrusions and malware(rootkits, bots, etc).



thanks for your repplies
nattan

rkhunter and clamav should be useful. Also make sure to run a firewall and keep up with security updates.

Occam's razor tells me, that you may have to replace your broken CD-ROM.