From: "Robert Comer" 

There's an option in the Mandrake install that enables a pretty decent
firewall.  (It's one of the very first screens if I remember correctly.)

- Bob Comer


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in message
news:41fdddc7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Hiya,
>
>
> my cousin has an old computer in which she's running an unlicensed
> ("borrowed") copy of W2k, and I'm thinking of installing
Linux on it - she
> only needs to use a word processor and browse the net, so I think she'd do
> well enough with Mandrake or similar "easy" release once
it's installed.
>
> But how's that security by default? Should I install a firewall and/or a
> virus scanner, or do they come in the default installation? Ports open or
> closed by default? Everything needs to be as automatic as possible,
> because I don't want to study that stuff much nor do I want to drive at
> her place every day.
>
> TIA,
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

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