From: Chris Robinson 

I haven't got as far as AV yet (I should od really) but as far as I'm
aware, Linux isn't too open to virus attacks as we'd think of them in
Windows - it's more things like trojans that are the problems (hopefully,
someone will correct me here if I'm wrong).  This said, I may well be
talking out my arse here :oP  I did a quick search on google and quite a
few came up - I'll have a play with some over the next week if I get time
and let you know if I find a good one :o)  A firewall may be more useful.

For firewalls, you can try going to http://apps.kde.com - that's a good
place for KDE software (if that's what you're going to use) - I found quite
a lot of firewall software there.  If you're going to use Mandrake, it has
a firewall config tool built in (in the Mandrake Control Center).

Chris 

"Richard B." wrote:

> On Thu, 01 May 2003 14:07:16 +0100, Chris Robinson
>  wrote:
>
> >Hope this helps (these are things I've found out and have come in handy
> >as a Linux newbie).  I've found that Linux people are generally pretty
> >friendly and willing to help so you shouldn't have too much hastle
> >finding an answer to something if you get stuck.
>
> *Thanks* for the extended response, Chris. I'm downloading from
> several sites as I write this, although it may be a few days before I
> get to do a real install.
>
> I did get Caldera installed some time ago but it was unstable on my
> old system and eventually rusted over.  I do want to become
> knowledgeable enough to actually use it in production this time
> around.
>
> I very much appreciate the tips, especially the networking ones. One
> question comes to mind...what do you use for anti-virus protection? I
> don't think Symantec has one.
>
> - Richard

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