Securing my Plex server

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Hi

a few months ago, i noticed someone had changed the name of my server to “SECURE YOUR SERVER”
i immediately changed my password and disabled access from outside network, thinking that would be it.
a few weeks later again i logged on to find the message “SECURE YOUR SERVER - NEXT TIME I WILL DELETE YOUR DATA” and my library’s had been deleted.
I changed my password again, and set up an access pin. and re-added my library’s. and every thing seemed fine

Tonight I’ve logged on again to find out i was signed out and another user signed in??? and a load of movies & tv shows in my recents that I’ve not watched

what can i do to stop this. getting to the point now, where i’m really considering to remove Plex from my system.

any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Max

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What platform is your server running on?

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running freenas server - having difficulty finding that xml in the plugin folder

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found it, thanks - hopefully thats me sorted

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@maxriot said:
running freenas server

Ah, I assume you used that prefabricated ‘Plex plugin’ with the horrible security setting.
It should be eradicated as soon as possible. You know this was not made by Plex Inc. Some 3rd party developers produced it and found it awesome to disable any security.
If you have some connection to the FreeNAS community, please warn everyone to not use it.

A standard jail into which you install PMS with pkg add plexmediaserver pkg install plexmediaserver, followed by a pkg update; pkg upgrade is the recommended way, according to the people more versed in FreeBSD than I.

[edit: corrected the installation cmd line]

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Actually it’s pkg install plexmediaserver

There’s a great guide on performing a manual install over at the FreeNAS forums.