a lot of important data
Hope you have a backup, not because of public torrents
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I do have a separate backup in a separate building that syncs the most important stuff.
Are you executing the files you download?
"There is no such thing as a dangerous file, only bad operating systems."
@zergling_man @Policeshootout ok then.
*wgets to sudo bash*
You executed the file. Not the OS' fault.
can i become part of your family too?
😂
You should use containers (a sandbox for each app you run). That way no malicious app can access your files. The easiest way is using Docker.
You should probably contextualise this and say instead that containers make it harder for the application to affect your environment and files.
It may be possible to break out of a container.
I do use docker, I set up a docker account as well with selected permissions.
on linux/unix you can make partitions files non executable.
Maybe you can mount in fstab a partition with the parameter NOEXEC:
Option 'NOEXEC' flag in the mount command does not allow the execution of executable binaries in the mounted file system1. However, when a script (a text file that begins with she-bang line; i.e., a line that begins with #!) is given to some shells (bash), it will run the executable named on that line (e.g., /usr/bin/perl) and pass the path of the shell script as the first argument. The actual interpreter might not be on that mountpoint.
1 The mount command typically mounts a file system. (Arguably, loop-back or bind mounts may be considered an exception to this generality.) In some cases (e.g., /tmp), this file system will contain only one directory.
[0]https://superuser.com/questions/728127/what-does-noexec-flag-mean-when-mounting-directories-on-rhel
The risk of malware is probably low; Plex/Jellyfin shouldn't execute any of it.
Check out forma the SFx if u are in windows
This NAS also has a lot of important data like photos and documents.
Those should be backupped! And no, the NAS alone is not a backup, otherwise yo wouldn't be worried.
It is backed up to a another drive that's in a separate building. At least the most important stuff syncs.