Are newbies running a firewall?

[Chris Maaskant]

O. Sinclair schreef:
> Chris Maaskant wrote:
>> I was thinking the same, but it is not the case, as soon as i stop the 
>> firestarter deamon i'm exposed to the net.
>> No ports are open, but they are visible.
>>
>> So again, how insecure is this?
>>     
> Just to add to this discussion I run Guarddog and have no problems 
> whatsoever, the "shields up" can find out a few things about me but not 
> much. So why Guarddog is not working for you I dont understand.
>   
Guarddog didn't run here when i first tryed it but i never gave it any 
thought and just removed it.
So i didn't mean that guarddog can't run on kubuntu 7.04 (you never said 
that i know) , just that *i* had a issue with it.

Just to be clear about that :-)

Chris Maaskant.