FC3 and Spyware and Email Virus
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Sun Dec 12 06:19:06 UTC 2004
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.
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