<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Pope</b> <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Caroline,<br><br>On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 23:34 +0100, London School of Puppetry wrote:<br>><br>> Hi there- as a linux user do you mean I don't have to have anti<br>> spyware or firewalls- and if I need then what do I ask for and from
<br>> whom? Are they downloadable?<br><br>There is almost no viruses or spyware/malware to speak of which would<br>affect a Linux desktop. Some would argue there is enough to make it<br>worth running an antivirus package on linux, I don't agree with that.
<br><br>A firewall is always a good idea though. There could be a service<br>running on your Linux machine (if you installed some server/service)<br>which may be exposed to the internet without some kind of firewall.<br>Exposing a service means people can poke and prod it to exploit flaws in
<br>it to gain access to your computer.<br><br>I use a firewall on my LAN, well, actually it's an old (Pentium 400MHz,<br>192MiB RAM) PC running ipcop (a specialised Linux distro). I don't have<br>the firewall configured on my local laptop or deskop. Some people would
<br>though.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Al.<br><br>Thanks Alan, where would I find a firewall to use? Caroline<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>---<br>London School of Puppetry
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