On my Windoze machine I use Norton Internet Security. Wondering what people reccomend for a Slackware system?

see: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...ewall_software

also, if you wanna recompile yourself a hardened kernel, take a look at the grsecurity patch:

http://www.grsecurity.net/

Thanks for the links. There are a lot of options! I use Fluxbox as my window manager. Can anyone reccomend a particular app? or plus and minus of using a script/console app or a gui app?

If it's for a desktop system, i guess you'll prefer a GUI app.
Since I never had any security problems with slack, I can't really tell wich one is better. I'm using Firestarter(very easy and complete enough for me) myself, mainly cause "www.linuxpackages.net" has binaries for it.

Firestarter:
http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=8057

They also have a package for Guarddog(even more easy, but not really my thing).

If you're unsure, using a binary might be the easiest way to start(and remove if you don't like it)...

take a look at http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/hack/slack_sec.txt titled Basic Slackware Security. Dl'able book SimplyLinux by jetzblack has SW10 install/config articles discussing securing your slack system. have fun.

Guarddog work's for me.

What specifically are you looking for when you say "Internet Security?" Are you looking for a virus scanner? Pop-up blocker? Firewall? There are -so- many options available for most of these (the ones that are needed in any case) that searching the Software forum will point you in popular directions.

Personally though, I use ...
Virus Scanner -- N/A (Not needed in linux; see many threads on the subject)
Pop-up Blocker -- Firefox works fine enough for me
Firewall -- iptables (which is a whole discussion in itself)

http://www.clamav.net/ can be tried.

With all due respect, I think your comment was a little irresponsible.

http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3307459975.html

Viruses are a reality in a Linux enviroment. Although unlikely, infection is still a possibility. Adds2one also mentioned a Windows machine, if Adds is running Samba (sharing file's between Windows and Linux) it's probably a good idea to get some extra virus protection up and running.

If you want to stick with the console, you should probably just stick with iptables.

http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.n...-tutorial.html

If you want a good G.U.I. firewall application, Firestarter and Guarddog are probably your best bet.

http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/

Someone already posted the Firestarter link.

As far as antivirus goes, clamav (which someone else already mentioned) works really well.

You should also think about rootkit's. I personally prefer rkhunter over chkrootkit, but I'm currently using both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit

http://www.rootkit.nl/

http://www.chkrootkit.org/

I use clamav to scan Samba shares; otherwise I try to be wise about how services are running.
Disable keyboard authentication for SSHd (public keys are the bees knees), and enabling SSL/TLS for everything that will support it.

I'm using shorewall (because of some side effects of the former firewall guarddog); it successfully passed a thorough firewall test.

Just a couple thoughts to consider about that article: 1) It was coming straight from someone with a definite interest in more people using antivirus solutions. 2) He still pretty much said that viruses don't really affect Linux. The biggest problem he was talking about was viruses being passed along to Windows - so that would still be a Windows problem.

I'm not saying that Linux users would never have to use an antivirus program, but it's not necessarily as big a need as that article made it out to be.

I couldn't have said it better myself... In regard's to the article there are hundred's out there like it, I blindly picked one from a Google search. Linux and UNIX user's aren't invulnerable to attack. In fact, as more and more people start using Linux the security problems with Linux will become more prevalent.

Also, it's not a Windows problem, in reality it would become adds problem...

I agree with the poster above -

something i think you should note is that windows viruses can reside on your linux box. of course they don't do anything, but you need to be careful of unwittingly passing these onto windoze users. Unless you want to teach them a lesson :-)

but seriously you don't want to be giving friends problems. run clam av if you are in any doubt...