FC3 and Spyware and Email Virus

[Michael A. Peters]

On 12/11/2004 09:45:50 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:

> 
> Hello Terry,
> 
> You shouldn't be worried really. So far...
> 
> Just make sure you use your Linux system as a regular user (not as
> "root"
> which is the power user) and that you don't have any open
> network-ports on
> your system. You can perform a search on google on how to secure your
> linux
> machine (stopping all unnecessary services and use a firewall).
>

A good firewall that is easy to configure is called firestarter.
Google for firestarter linux and you should find their website.

Well, firestarter itself actually isn't a firewall, but it configures  
the firewall that is part of the Linux kernel.

On Linux, spyware and viruses are not as much of an issue as worms, and  
a firewall will go a long way to stop your machine from being infected  
by worms.

You also should keep your system up2date using either the up2date gui  
or yum.