The most important thing you can do is FIREWALL outbound traffic as well as inbound. It's a great deal of work, but clearly nepharious traffic will be dropped. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Bob Elzer wrote: > My question would be, how many times a day does someone try to break into > your system ? > > If you don't know the answer then maybe you should be running a firewall. > > 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. > > 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. > > Windows may have more vulnerabilities, but they will still try to break > into Linux systems. > > Search and read about fail2ban, that's one tool to use when you need to > have a service open to the internet. > > Hope this helps > On Aug 26, 2014 8:15 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > >> I hear people say, "Even Linux users need a firewall." >> 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? >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >