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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Because I had outgoing rules defined, I
actually found out I had an infected Windows 98 box (yeah - long
time ago). Said Win98 box was running a leading AV program and
was infected by one of the most popular viruses. This event
boosted my faith in outbound monitoring and destroyed my faith in
AV products.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Regards,
George Toft
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On 8/27/2014 9:39 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The most important thing you can do is FIREWALL
outbound traffic as well as inbound.
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<div>It's a great deal of work, but clearly nepharious traffic
will be dropped.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Bob
Elzer <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bob.elzer@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.elzer@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<p dir="ltr">My question would be, how many times a day does
someone try to break into your system ?</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you don't know the answer then maybe you
should be running a firewall.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It really depends on whether your network is
secure or not, usually what secures your network is a
firewall. If that's the one on your router then that
should be enough.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Looking in your log files for strange IP's and
failed password attempts will let you know if people are
trying to get in, if you're running a web server look in
the error logs for attempts to access non existing files,
usually a bunch from the same IP.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Windows may have more vulnerabilities, but they
will still try to break into Linux systems.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Search and read about fail2ban, that's one tool
to use when you need to have a service open to the
internet.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hope this helps<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 26, 2014 8:15 PM, "Michael
Havens" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>>
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<div>I hear people say, "Even Linux users need a
firewall."<br>
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My question is..... why? I've runlinux since '98 w/o a
firewall (aside from the one sent with my
modem/router). Isn't that good enough?<br clear="all">
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<div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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