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Do I need a firewall and antivirus stuff?
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:26 am
by the lemming
Hello
Having only played in a Microsoft world I am all too aware of hackers, viruses and spyware.
Now that I have decided to move over to Linux Mint do I need any kind of protection while surfing?
I only ask as I went to a site which tested for vulnrabilities and it got me wondering as I had failed some tests.
Cheers
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:33 am
by NiksaVel
no, here is why:
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... e-firewall
and welcome to the free world lemming!
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 7:02 am
by NiksaVel
firestarter for gnome and guarddog for KDE seem to be the most popular solutions - I've used them both and they are super-easy... extremely light no resources.... come to think of it they take up NO resources since they are only GUI frontends for configuring IPtables - which is an integral part of linux
and of course no annoying popups of any kind...
I've tried both and decided I have no use for it.... been using bianca stable since it was released (well ... almost since it was released)
Re: Do I need a firewall and antivirus stuff?
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 7:10 am
by scorp123
the lemming wrote:I only ask as I went to a site which tested for vulnrabilities and it got me wondering as I had failed some tests.
Can you please give more details about this? What site and which test did you fail? You have to be cautious with such sites, especially if they belong to a vendor of anti-virus software and such. Even though you are probably perfectly safe such sites will try to make you believe that you absolutely need their products ...
