Firewall and/or anti-virus

[GreyGeek]

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.
>
>
> Nils
>   
You are probably confusing iptables with the gui interfaces to it, like 
"firestarter" or "shorewall", which "whereis" tells me isn't installed 
by default, since I never installed them.
GG