new install, Firewall, anti-virus?

[Elliott Chapin]

On 11/10/2009 07:42 PM, Ryan Lynch wrote:
> Hey, Jim:
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 19:15, Jim Douglas<jdz99 at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>> Is the firewall up and running by default effective? It's a home machine but
>> I plan on adding a web server.
>
> The default Fedora firewall is pretty good. Just make sure that the
> 'iptables' service is running (should be, by default). You can use the
> GUI 'system-config-services' tool to look at what's running, or run
> 'sudo service iptables status' from the command line.
>
> About that web server... See below for an opinion on that.
>
>> What is the best anti-virus?
>
> In my experience, most Linux users/systems don't bother. I think it's
> generally considered to be a low-probability threat on Linux. You can
> certainly use ClamAV (open-source signature-based AV), but I don't
> know how much it will integrate with your other programs' usage.
> You're almost definitely NOT going to find the kind of comprehensive,
> all-seeing, all-knowing, checks-all-file-access AntiVirus suite that
> you've grown to know in the Windows world.

I don't use one with Linux either. But on XP I use AVG, which has Linux 
editions.
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