Greetings Forum. I am posting here because of the potential security issue.
I suppose this thread could have been opened in the Gaming & Leisure area but because of its potential as a security threat I posted in here. Please move to a more appropriate location as you deem necessary.
My issue is that I downloaded [COLOR=#0000ff]Freevo[/COLOR], a Home Theater Server program, from the repositories ([COLOR=#0000ff]Mepis[/COLOR]) and the application starts immediately after downloading and won't allow itself to be closed until the user has input some video server type, information.
I'm using [COLOR=#0000ff]Mepis 11[/COLOR] (I know it's not [COLOR=#0000ff]Ubuntu[/COLOR], that's on the other partition).:D
Does anyone know if this is just an odd way for an application to introduce itself or is this a potential threat to be taken serious? The fact that it opens immediately after downloading, --giving it root access-- and that it will not allow itself to be closed until the user has interacted with the program, has me more that just a little concerned.
Forgive my paranoia. I know [COLOR=#0000ff]Linux[/COLOR] is safe. But the user.....well, that can be something of a topic in itself, can't it. ;)
Thank you for any help you can provide.
Kind regards.
Patriot56