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[Minyaliel]

I've had many recent attempts of intrusion by hackers - help!! I've installed firestarter, but I'm still worried - is this good enough protection? I thought Linux was supposed to be secure....:-|

[lotusleaf]

I've had many recent attempts of intrusion by hackers - help!! I've installed firestarter, but I'm still worried - is this good enough protection? I thought Linux was supposed to be secure....:-|

Plenty of good reading material here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45261

"LQ Security references"

"1: Basics, important sites, HOWTO's, handbooks, tips, advisories, mailinglists, hardening, log analysis, sites, books
2: Netfilter, firewall, Iptables, Ipchains, DoS, DDoS
3: Intrusion detection, integrity checks, antivirus
4: Chroot, chrooting, jailing, comparimization
5: Forensics, recovery, undelete

Some texts contain step by step directions for newbies, and some are directed at intermediate or expert users."

Also see this sticky thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=9836).

[Minyaliel]

Oh, thanks very much! :)