On 06/29/2017 10:39 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/29/2017 07:56 PM, Doug wrote:
> I have no firewall. What I want is something like Windows has:
> Bitdefender, or Malware Bytes. If I turn on any of the suggested
> firewalls, something that I
> use will probably be blocked--email, Google, something. Sorry I'm just
> too stupid to understand this. I don't normally ever boot into
> Windows, but I have it on a couple
> of machines--not this one.
If I'm not mistaken, firewalld is part of the default Fedora
installation package, and is loaded at boot if you haven't done anything
to disable it. Run this in a terminal as yourself:
ps aux | grep firewalld | grep -v grep
"systemctl status firewalld" seems to work as my user, although I don't
know if it's because I'm wheel as well.
and if you get any output, you have a firewall that's probably
better
integrated into your system than any third-party program is likely to be.
Yes. It doesn't detect malware like those other programs do, but if you
are sensible with what you open or download, it doesn't matter.