Hello: I have found the best protection is to use a hardware based firewall, which also keeps all unwanted network traffic away from your computer.
The one that I use is a low cost firewall appliance/wireless router called the HotBrick SoHo 401W. It costs a bit more then mass market so called firewall rounters, but a lot less then most other firewall appliances. You can buy one directly from HotBrick.com or search for other sellers on line, you can also compare it to other firewall appliances. Most people these days have more then one computer and want them to communicate with each other as well as accessing the Internet. Using a hardware based firewall router protects all your systems and eliminates the need to run firewalls on each of your systems. Allowing you to share files, resources and services between your local computers and control access to them from the outside. I Hope that this is helpful Mike Feravolo Cocoa Beach, FL On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 12:26 -0600, Bruce Anderson wrote: > I just tried installing a firewall to my new system. I had downloaded > Smoothwall 2.0, when I tried to install it nothing happened > (thankfully). I discovered and read the installation instructions and > found out that it would have wiped my whole system. Now, I have 2 > questions, how do you install stuff on a Linux machine? and can anyone > reccomend a good firewall, as I'm a bit gunshy now after the > smoothwall incident. > > Bruce -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
