Ultimate Edition Firewall & AntiVirus

[smuggly]

I Keep Hearing How Linux Is Being Focused On More By Adware Etc.Do We Need A Firewall And Anti Virus? And If So Which Progs To Use?
Thanx Tom

[LeadFingers]

The short answer... Not really.

The longer version...
One of the shining high points of Linux, is it's security.
Due to the way it's written, a person logged on as User can't make any changes to the core components without the Administrative or Root Password, This makes it VERY difficult for a Virus, Trojan, Spyware, or Adware to affect any of the core components. In short they simply don't have Permission.
For those running Windows Apps under wine, Yes your windows apps are still vulnerable to attack, but the damage is confined to only those Window apps NOT any of the Linux components.
For this reason (and for trouble shooting a M$ OS) Ultimate Edition installs Antivirus ClamAV, and AntiVirus Updater ClamAV-Update, by default. Yes you could install different AV if you wanted to but Ultimate Edition's is pretty good.

While it's always a good idea to run a firewall, from a Linux perspective, it's simply to keep the peepers out.
They couldn't do anything if they did stumble in AND knew Linux, so all they could do is look and maybe copy,
but who cares to copy software that is not only free but is readily available on the net. At best they would get maybe a few songs, movies, or pictures. To keep these peepers out Ultimate Edition comes with a firewall installed by default. Yes you could install a more secure Firewall if you wanted to, but Ultimate Edition's is pretty good.

Back to the short version... you don't need to install anything, you don't need to configure anything, you're already covered.

[alenshowbrizz]

ClamAV has pretty work with Linux, I have been use this one last 9 month in my PC , It is very nicely working in it.

[stanca]

[becca]

Nice update..........

[Killer boi]

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you've got elegant gnome onnn XD i just recently found it and its AWESOME =D