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Old 11-10-2004, 06:33 PM   #1
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The firewall and virus scanners that come with Suse


The good news is that I will get broadband on Monday, at least the stuff should arrive then. In fact, one reason for getting Linux was so that I could get broadband and still sleep at night.

The bad news is that I know little about firewalls and Linux virus scanners and related software. I know that some related applications come with the install. Are they reliable and relatively easy to use? Or should I look elsewhere? (I tried googling, but there are so many hits related to to Suse and it's seperate firewall product that I just couldn't find anything of value.)
 
Old 11-10-2004, 06:58 PM   #2
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SUSE Comes with a firewall, easy to configure through YaST. You'll survive without a virus scanner.

Seeya,
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Old 11-11-2004, 01:27 AM   #3
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I use clamav, but I had to install it from source. If you are worried, get chkrootkit too (also needs to be installed from source)
 
Old 11-11-2004, 05:23 PM   #4
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ClamAV shipped with SuSE 9.1, and will most likely ship with 9.2 (I'll tell you tomorrow). It is currently stopping roughly 350 viruses/day on our SuSE mail gateway.
 
  


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