Hi Caroline, On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 23:34 +0100, London School of Puppetry wrote: > > Hi there- as a linux user do you mean I don't have to have anti > spyware or firewalls- and if I need then what do I ask for and from > whom? Are they downloadable?
There is almost no viruses or spyware/malware to speak of which would affect a Linux desktop. Some would argue there is enough to make it worth running an antivirus package on linux, I don't agree with that. A firewall is always a good idea though. There could be a service running on your Linux machine (if you installed some server/service) which may be exposed to the internet without some kind of firewall. Exposing a service means people can poke and prod it to exploit flaws in it to gain access to your computer. I use a firewall on my LAN, well, actually it's an old (Pentium 400MHz, 192MiB RAM) PC running ipcop (a specialised Linux distro). I don't have the firewall configured on my local laptop or deskop. Some people would though. Cheers, Al.
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