On 04/03/07, Roberto Sarrionandia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone who told you not to have a firewall is pretty foolish,
Anti-virus is only needed if you can't configure applications properly. Why have the firewall drop inbound traffic? The traffic will only really do damage if a program is listening for input on that port. Why have a program listen to a port just to firewall it out. You may as well not have had the program bind to that port in the first place. The reason firewalls are common on Windows is that Windows comes with so much listening to the outside world its hard to turn it all off. Of course some applications will try to listen to a port, they are normally spy ware, don't install them in the first place. of course a firewall is always nice to see if people are trying to make inbound connections to you. And of course you could always have a hardware firewall, most (all) NAT routers provide some level of firewalling (they haven't got much choice really, it's part of how NAT works). (having said all this I have Firestarter configure IPTables, just in case I stupidly install a daemon.) Andy -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
