On 23/04/10 11:51, Alan Pope wrote: > On 23 April 2010 11:47, John Matthews<jake...@sky.com> wrote: > >> Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis >> used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was >> talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside. >> How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the >> Terminal. Can somebody help? >> >> > nmap can do this. > > http://nmap.org/bennieston-tutorial/ > > Cheers, > Al. > >
Thanks everybody, I appreciate the help. I will try see if I can understand it now. @Alan Lord......that is very clever I'm impressed....also very patronising....and you wonder why it is I react the way I do on here and IRC ubuntu-uk. I want to say more. If I understood how it worked, I wouldnt have needed to ask. The way I see it, you didnt have to talk, just do what Alan Pope did, just give some urls, that didnt hurt. Or better still, say nothing. Because it didnt help, apart from the wind me up even more. If it means anything, I did a google search, prior to e-mailing, and couldnt work out if they were talking about Linux or Windows, or what they would work on. In that search it didnt seem to mention Linux at all, so I dont know if it will work on Linux or not, hence the question. @Alan Lord....In that search you just performed for me, it mentions nothing about Linux, so how do I know if it will work. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
