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This is a discussion on Linux security within the Linux forums, part of the Operating Systems category; fedora or linux versions increases browsing and downloading speed and is there need of antivirus ,firewall for fedora...
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02-10-2008
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2008
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Rep Power: 0  |  Linux security fedora or linux versions increases browsing and downloading speed and is there need of antivirus ,firewall for fedora |
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09-10-2008
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| Guardian Angel  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Pune
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How will Fedora or Linux increase browsing or downloading speed? That is not possible. | |
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09-10-2008
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| Pingu Mod  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: New Delhi
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 apart from that we really don't use different firewalls so there are no barriers and please don't ask about any virus on linux... Linux users hardly care about virus  | |
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09-10-2008
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| Alligator  Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Patna, Pune
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Rep Power: 3 | Windows reserves 20% of bandwidth for something called Quality Of Service(qos)... Which affects browsing speed(not downloading)... This option can be disabled or decreased to 0... And yeah very less chance of virus threat for Linux... |
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09-10-2008
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| Arch Angel  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Chennai /India
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Rep Power: 2 | Fedora Part of bandwidth is reserved by windows for "quality maintenance " of the connection ...but it can be easily changed not to do so in order to get full speed..... I am a Fedora core Power user and yes ..unfortunately nowadays even Linux is effected by viruses .... One even disabled my transcend flash drive  Security Tips for Firewall Fedora has a built in firewall ...its more powerful than Window's default firewall Access it by opening the terminal type in: system-config-firewall You will find the firewall setting also somewhere in the Gnome or KDE menu Security tips for Anti-virus Use (free) clam antivirus [the most popular for Fedora ] To install clamav: 1. open a terminal 2. su - to become root 3. yum install clamav 4. answer with y, if yum asks Clamav Anti-virus for Fedora Unless you r stubborn and run as root ...the chances of viruses attacking fedora are remote . But it may attack ur friend's windows sys thru ur mails or portable devices ...as most windows virus dont run in Linux distributions ... Anyway there are few that do some damage [like it did to me] .... |
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09-10-2008
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| Silver Member  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Mysore Age: 20
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Rep Power: 1 | I tought that Linux was Virus free,because all executables are files in Linux and need our permission ro run them... |
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09-10-2008
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| Pingu Mod Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: New Delhi
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Rep Power: 4 | guru dont worry about virus and you can use your ubuntu without any issues  |
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09-10-2008
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| Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Mysore Age: 20
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Rep Power: 1 | Thanks vibes i can browse now without any issues,happily in Linux. |
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09-10-2008
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| Bronze Member  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Heaven
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Rep Power: 1 | I'd like to add a point to what shadowcon already mentioned. Not only fedora, all the distributions come with their own default firewall to protect every user. And all those default firewalls are mostly activated by default without the end user's permission (don't you think it's a pain to install and activate a firewall, once the OS has been installed). As far as virus is concerned, there is a possibility of various kind of attacks under linux too. I always advice to turn ON updates, if it's not enabled by default. And never run ANY application as a root, unless it's required. |
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