Firewall and/or anti-virus

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Monday 06 April 2009 10:25:32 Nils Kassube wrote:
> GreyGeek wrote:
> > But, if your installation of Jaunty is like mine, a
> > firewall was installed and configured automatically.
>
> Strange. There is no firewall automatically installed on my
> Kubuntu Jaunty system. And how should the installer know what
> configuration would be OK? Can you be a bit more specific and
> tell us which firewall package is installed on your machine? Or
> maybe you are mixing it up with the fact that the default
> installation doesn't have any open ports. But that has nothing to
> do with a firewall, it is just the *ubuntu default.

I guess GreyGeek means 'iptables' - located in /usr/sbin/iptables.
One can modify its default settings by hand or by running a frontend 
such as 'firestarter'.

Kaj Haulrich.
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