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Firewall and antivirus software - Dragoljub - 04-02-2016
I would like to know, do we need firewall and anti-virus applications on Linux systems? There are links for installing these applications, but is it safer to leave original system files without installing additional software?
Re: Firewall and antivirus software - firenice03 - 04-02-2016
By default LL has a firewall built in..
From menu type firewall... you'll be prompted for password..
My opinion... better to have something than nothing, with that if you have a router you're already behind a FW...
But for open wifi, it wouldnt hurt to have LL FW enabled..
My 2 cents
Re: Firewall and antivirus software - Les Normal - 06-18-2016
I have a router so I dont know anything about firewalls.
I also have firefox web browser installed which is immediately infected when I get online.....mostly from malicious pop-up windows.
I have set browser cache to Zero which has helped alot...
I read a review which states that ClamTK is nearly useless as an Anti-Virus.
I have downloaded sophos but not yet tried to install it.
Another post says its CLI only *gulp*
Linux Needs Anit-Virus software.. IMHO
Re: Firewall and antivirus software - Monkeyman - 06-18-2016
(06-18-2016, 02:13 AM)Les Normal link Wrote: Linux Needs Anit-Virus software.. IMHO
I disagree. When I was running Windows, I had 3 or 4 different virus/malware/etc progs that constantly caught all the misc bad stuff. When I didn't use those, I could tell there were bad things on my computer. I have yet to use any anti virus prog on this machine and have never had an issue. Not that it can't be infected but it's a heck of a lot more remote than with either Windows or Mac.