Hi Alan, thank you for the e-mail, those two urls are really useful. I did check on both, dont much understand what it has to say, but I do know now that I seem to be secure, and I can make it eve more secure if I want it.
I only asked, because I have a program on windows, that suddenly appeared to develop a virus, just out of nowhere. It was. I contacted the developer, and was told there was actually a virus in the .exe file. which kind of surprised me, since I have used this application for a couple of years, and its the first time that has happened. Its been sorted. I just wanted to make sure, I couldnt get a virus or anything else on Ubuntu. I am a bit anal when it comes to updates, I check on the updates everyday, and not wait for the update manager to remind me. I am the same with Windows updates, I dont wait, and now my virus guard actually tells me that I have windows updates waiting, if I have missed any. Thank you again, John. Alan Bell wrote: > John Matthews wrote: > >> I wonder if somebody can hep. I dont have any firewall or virus >> protection on my ubuntu partitions. I am a little bit concerned about >> this. I did install one Called Firestarter, which messed up everything, >> and I had to uninstall it. I just couldnt get around the firewall. I >> know it was my fault, as I just dont understand the way the firewall >> works. I also have something called Firewall Builder installed, I dont >> understand that either, so I'm a bit stumped. >> >> I run my Ubuntu using the admin log in, should I run it via a separate >> long in that doesnt have admin privileges? Which is the easiest >> protection system that a thicko like can understand and not break >> anything with. >> >> Thanks >> >> John. >> >> >> > Hi John, > do you mean you log in as "john" and you can put your password in again > if you want to install stuff? If so that is normal and secure, you are a > user with sudo rights. If you are logging on as the user called root, > then you have a problem. > > In the IRC channel #ubuntu-uk there is a bot that tells us things, here > is what it has to say about firewalls and viruses > > 12:22 < AlanBell> !firewall > 12:22 < ubot4> Ubuntu, like any other linux distribution, has firewall > capabilities built-in. The firewall is managed using the 'ufw' command (see > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Uncomplicated_Firewall_ufw), or > 'iptables' (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo). GUI > applications such as Firestarter/Gufw (Gnome) or Guarddog > (KDE) also exist > 12:22 < AlanBell> !virus > 12:22 < ubot4> A/V software is available, however read this to > understand why Linux does not have a virus problem: > http://librenix.com/?inode=21 > > > out of the box Ubuntu is secure and you don't need to worry about > hardening like you do with the dominant proprietary operating system. Do > keep up with the updates though. > > Alan. > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
