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

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Its not free. You have a 30 day trial. I hate this marketing scheme.

Linux is free. Keep it free.

James


On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:58 +0530, Jatin K wrote:
> On 11/13/2009 03:34 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, James Harrison
> > <jamesaharrisonuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>  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]
> ----------------------
> http://download.bitdefender.com/SMB/Workstation_Security_and_Management/BitDefender_Antivirus_Scanner_for_Unices/Unix/Current/EN_FR_BR_RO/Linux/
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> -- 
>    °v°
>   /(_)\
>    ^ ^  Jatin Khatri
> 
> No MS
> 

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