Anti-Virus/Firewall?
 

Hi, everyone

As we all know Anti-Virus software is a must with Windows, but is it necessary for Linux?
What is the Virus situation with Linux, are there viruses circulating that affect it?
Also, I set the Firewall to medium during the Linux install. Is this sufficient?
Any recommendations.

Thanks

This question has probably been asked many times before as well, but here we go:
There aren't many Viruses, make it easy, there aren't any serious ones. Think this way: what damage can a Virus do if you aren't logged in as root? It could only delete temp. files or personal files, but the system cannot be touched.
As for the firewall - i don't know what firewall you're using...neither do I know many.
Hope this helps

kinda depends what on earth "medium" means. it'll just be defined by whatever little iptables tool redhat included, and is not standard or anything. all firewall programs just act as a front end to iptables or ipchains. persoanlly i use firestarter, others just write it manually (i.e. the proper way)

http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/

this is highly recommended

keep bad people out! ;)

Thanks everyone
I'll give firestarter a go as I'm a long way off being able to write it manually.