[ubuntu-in] How many of you use an Firewall / AntiVirus

[Jkhatri]

On Tuesday 15 June 2010 07:45 AM, Narendra Diwate wrote:
> A recent post by Ramnarayan on Malware on Linux got me thinking about 
> this.
>
> I do have a running Firewall (ufw with Gufw) but do not have an 
> Antivirus or Security Suite. Even the firewall has just one rule to 
> allow incoming torrent clients on a specific port.
> Other than this there is no other security. And i frequently use a 
> Pendrive to copy files from and to heavily infected Win Machines. I 
> know they are infected because I delete a lot of exe files and auto 
> inf files from the pendrive when i connect it to Ubuntu. I have a 
> separate partition that contains my data, music, photos etc that is 
> NOT Auto mounted on login. I do not run any code that i am unsure of 
> what it does.
>
> What about you guys. How many of you use a Comprehensive security 
> suite or Antivirus, antispyware or malware programs? What other 
> procedures do you use to keep safe?
>
> Regards
>
> Narendra Diwate
>
>

Hi Narendra

I'm using bitdefender with GUI ( proprietory but free "Gratis") in   on 
my Fedora/Ubuntu x86_64bit ( to clean the pen-drive/external storage 
which are often used with M$)


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