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Hi,<br />
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Is that Mandrake 10?<br />
<br />
A quick way of hardening your system is to use bastille script, availble from:<br />
<a href="http://www.bastille-linux.org/" rel="ugc">http://www.bastille-linux.org/</a><br />
<br />
For antivirus, pls check out:<br />
<a href="http://www.clamav.net/" rel="ugc">http://www.clamav.net/</a><br />
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Reg hardening, you also need to do some more modifications of your operating system<br />
based on the distribution you are using. Let me know the distro you are using and i can<br />
suggest common guidelines you need to follow (this is apart from using bastille).<br />
<br />
HTH,<br />
sisiro
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Hi,

Is that Mandrake 10?

A quick way of hardening your system is to use bastille script, availble from:
http://www.bastille-linux.org/ [http://www.bastille-linux.org/]

For antivirus, pls check out:
http://www.clamav.net/ [http://www.clamav.net/]

Reg hardening, you also need to do some more modifications of your operating system
based on the distribution you are using. Let me know the distro you are using and i can
suggest common guidelines you need to follow (this is apart from using bastille).

HTH,
sisiro

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I would suggest you learn about IPTABLES as this is a powerful tool build into the kernel,<br />
you will be able to build a firewall with these to fit your needs. <a href="http://www.netfilter.org/" rel="ugc">http://www.netfilter.org/</a><br />
<br />
Also there are hardly any viruses out for Linux but if you still want to a virus scanner<br />
you can get the clamav scanner which is a powerful and free scanner.
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I would suggest you learn about IPTABLES as this is a powerful tool build into the kernel,
you will be able to build a firewall with these to fit your needs. http://www.netfilter.org/ [http://www.netfilter.org/]

Also there are hardly any viruses out for Linux but if you still want to a virus scanner
you can get the clamav scanner which is a powerful and free scanner.

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Just installed linux 10.1<br />
have no idea about security<br />
any suggestions for firewalls, anti-virus apps etc
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Just installed linux 10.1
have no idea about security
any suggestions for firewalls, anti-virus apps etc

security suggestions

The Linux operating system, in all its flavors, has its own share of security flaws that allow intrusions, but there are various mechanisms by which these flaws can be removed, generally divided into two parts: authentication and access control. Authentication is responsible for ensuring that a user requesting access to the system is really the user with the account, while access control is responsible for controlling which resources each account has access to and what kind of access is permitted.