anti virus

[Joel Goguen]

The only thing I would change about David's advice is to use gufw, not
Firestarter.  Firestarter is outdated, gufw is the new and supported way
of handling your firewall using a GUI.

I also wouldn't put "firewall" in quotes when describing iptables, it's
not hypothetical or supposed, it's a real and legitimate
enterprise-class firewall that happens to also be easy enough for the
average person to pick up relatively easily.  But that's just me being
kinda picky :)


On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 03:05 -0400, raymond house wrote:
> Thanks Dave, I appreciate the input.  Ray
> 
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:30 PM, David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:10:46 -0400
>         raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         > Hi everyone, I have a question for you, I have clamav
>         according to
>         > synaptic manager, also have Firestarter, do I need them
>         both? Thank
>         > you,  Ray. (ubuntu 9.04 user)
>         
>         
>         In my opinion, if you're just running a desktop or laptop, you
>         do not
>         need either.
>         
>         There are no known viruses for linux. Clamav is usually used
>         to
>         scan Windows hard drives or scan incoming mail on a server.
>         
>         Firestarter is a graphical front-end to linux's built-in
>         'firewall'
>         called Iptables. You should only need this if you have a
>         server
>         running on a local network (like file sharing) or have a
>         direct
>         connection(pppoe or other) to the Internet.
>         
>         Dave
>         
>         
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