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there is no such thing as a Virus Protection thing for linux, because the last linux virus was a fiew years ago. But run a firewall or be behind a router, because a good hacker can still get into a linux system.
that's cool, i'm behind a router, cheers for that! i'm getting more and more excited waiting for my pc to arrive so i can start abandoning microsoft for something that works!
oh one more thing - is there a pop up stopper for linux? or is that another thing linux doesn't havea problem with?
you can block popups with opera, firefox, and mozilla just with settings
also can allow specific sites popups
you can also use the firefox and mozilla files in ~/.mozilla and .firefox
called userContent.css to eliminate the display of adds by the browser
speeding up internet considerably and generally fixing a broken www
also can use proxy server privoxy to kill adds
or squid to cache dns lookups
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