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Gufw firewall

david7307

Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:57:06 pm

why does a firewall not come pre enabled in zorin6
i still dont realy know if we have to have one in linux ,and if so what are rules how do we write commands , in windows it gives you options when you have to change things, i know this is not windows but its hard to get your head round when thy say linux is safe then make it bloody hard to protect your self ,not that i have ever had or don't think i have been compromised

david7307

Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:59:53 pm

i have GUWF on computer and when i open it it tells me it is off ,so i unlock it and it tells me its active ,after that i have no idea what to do
but when i restart my puter i have to reopen guwf and it tells me it is off so i have to unlock it and switch it on again
is there a way to lock it on ?

blfriis

Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:34:05 pm

So does mine but don't worry open a terminal and copy/paste this
Code:
sudo ufw status

And it will give you the status.

david7307

Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:26:44 pm

It tells me its active ,so is that all i have to know, no more settings to do
i am just on a home computer and surf the net and emails mostly

Wolfman

Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:51:35 am

Hi David,

I don't know anything about firewalls but I have a suggestion about browser protection for Firefox, go to the add-on menu and type "browser protect" and then on install, it stops your browser from being hijacked!!.

http://www.browserprotect.org/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW

http://joshua14.homelinux.org/blog/?p=1065

Regards Wolfman :D

blfriis

Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:01:43 pm

you can try follow this site https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

shkarst

Sat Dec 08, 2012 3:50:33 am

My status for the Firewall also said, "ACTIVE," so I have to assume it is, even though when I open the FIREWALL from System Tools, it is OFF, and I also can not get it to stay on. So ACTIVE I assume in the terminal is ACTIVE. Was concerned because I installed, ClamTK reading that that is our program for Anti Virus scans, and I am presently doing a RECURSIVE SCAN, which scans all FILE/FOLDERS, and in the PREFERENCES I checked anything that there was to check>>LOL. And so far at only about 4% complete, it has detected over 122 items. But IMO it is BULL because these are mostly file/folders copied over from Windows upon installation, and I just did an Avast Boot time and Malwarebytes scan on the Windows side this afternoon and it was 100% clean (Netbook)