new install, Firewall, anti-virus? (BitDefender can help)

[Jatin K]

On 11/13/2009 03:34 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, James Harrison
> <jamesaharrisonuk at yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>    
>> Well done for trashing Windows 7 and replacing it with F11. You are
>> moving in the right direction.
>>
>> Haven't seen a Linux virus yet.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 00:15 +0000, Jim Douglas wrote:
>>      
>>> I just trashed Windows 7 and installed FC11 but before I connect to
>>> the internet how best could I protect the machine?
>>>
>>> Is the firewall up and running by default effective? It's a home
>>> machine but I plan on adding a web server.
>>>
>>> What is the best anti-virus?
>>>
>>> (Bye, bye windows!)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
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>>      
> Well done, you are now free.
>
> Linux kernel already has a firewall (netfilter), and in fedora there
> is easy to use GUI called system-config-firewall (System>
> Administration>  Firewall)
>
> Linux virus are very rare and no efficient until you are *root*, there
> is a very powerful Free / Open Source anti-virus called ClamAV used to
> scan you PC from Windows virus/trojan/worm and very rare Linux ones...
>
> Personaly, i use ClamAV to scan web servers, mail servers, SMB servers
> from windows virus and very rare PHP shells (backdoors)
>
> Best regards.
>
>    
you can go with Bitdefender also (it is free for home users)  get it 
from here[1].... they are having GUI version and Non-GUI version too for 
FreeBSD and other distro.(32bit and 64bit ) ..... it can detect windows 
virus

it is very useful if you are sharing the data/files with M$ user ( off 
course to protect those M$ OS )

[1]
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http://download.bitdefender.com/SMB/Workstation_Security_and_Management/BitDefender_Antivirus_Scanner_for_Unices/Unix/Current/EN_FR_BR_RO/Linux/


Regards

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