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I am a newbie to Ubuntu. I've been reading information on how to turn on the default firewall and it might as well be written in Greek.
I have located Network Settings options for iPv4 and iPv6 and have turned them on. Is this the correct way to activate the Ubuntu firewall?
Also, I have noticed that since enabling these settings I can no longer access Options in Network settings. How can I access the Options settings again? Thanks!
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I would install Gufw, Enable it, choose DENY IN, ALLOW OUT - for the moment - until I understand more Greek.
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Re: Firewall
Sorry for being such a newb...I was under the assumption that firewall and virus etc came turned on and runnning and all that with ubuntu?
Very new here...
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New to Ubuntu and lost. If someone could point me in the right direction of where I can find, access and manage UFW settings, please?
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ufw a command line program.
Open a terminal and use:
to enable it simply:Code:man ufw
beyond that is simply tweaking rules to fit your needs.Code:sudo ufw enable
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Community documentation, UFW:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW
And the gufw GUI frontend:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gufw
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No, that's got nothing to do with the firewall.Originally Posted by ChrisInNevada
To enable the firewall:
Open a terminal by pressing ctrl + alt + t.
type inand you're done. It will allow all out and deny all incoming by default, which will be fine for you until you learn more.Code:sudo ufw enable
It will also stay enabled from now on even after you reboot until you specifically disable the firewall by typingCode:sudo ufw disable
Last edited by Ms. Daisy; February 16th, 2013 at 06:45 PM.
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ctrl alt t is what I was looking for. Thank you, Ms Daisy!
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Read the basic security wiki, it's designed specifically to answer your questions.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BasicSecurity
TL;DR version: the firewall is installed but not enabled by default.
There is no anti-virus software in the world that will scan for linux viruses, they all scan for Windows and maybe Mac viruses. So for a new Linux user there is no point in running anti-virus. However, there are OTHER security controls that you might want to implement that would actually be effective. Again, read the basic security wiki for details.
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