anti virus

[Jack Bowling]

One thing Firestarter has that gufw lacks is any "realtime" monitoring of
connections which one can do with Firestarter. If you see a suspect
connection in FS, you can take action and block it. 

Jack


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:20:40AM -0300, Joel Goguen wrote:
> 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  Firestarter is outdated, gufw is the new and supported way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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