Anti-virus and Firewall protection for Linux

Bob McClure Jr robertmcclure at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 11 19:27:09 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:11:37AM -0800, Albus Dumbledore wrote:
> 	Do I need anti-virus

No, unless your machine is a mail server for Windoze boxen.  If it is,
get Clam AntiVirus and clamassassin.

> and firewall protection for Linux (RHW-3) like I
> do for Windows.

Yes.

> If so what would you recommend?

Your distro probably has adequate tools for the job.  My FC4 box has
firewall-config, maybe yours does too.  If not, it's called something
else.  Look in the system tools of your menus.

If you need more fine-tuning of the firewall, Google for "linux
firewall".  Firestarter is a pretty good one.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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