Firewall and/or anti-virus

[Jonas Norlander]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> 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?

iptables installed by default but its not configured or enabled.
$ sudo iptables -L
[sudo] password for jonas:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

There is also a frontend (UFW) in ubuntu for iptables and it's
installed by default but not used.
$ sudo ufw status
Status: inactive

Ufw is what i think Ubuntu is going to use as they has started to ship
rules for ufw in the packages. On a default install of Jaunty i have
this rules.
$ sudo ufw app list
Available applications:
  CUPS

For more info on UFW
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFirewall

/ Jonas