friendlyneighborhooddisease wrote:

Ahh yes, the other desktop. Apologies. I've been using ubuntu since
Xmas, naked to the world, no malware. What a feeling of liberation from
the hyperparanoid world of Microsoft...


I still use a firewall, just in case. Try Firestarter. It's easy to set
up and you don't have to start editing arcane, hidden iptables files.
The real Linux users would cringe at that last line.

It's surprising what traffic comes your way.


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


This is a good site to check ANY computer for weaknesses:

http://www.grc.com/intro.htm


Click on the 'Shields Up' logo, then move down the page to 'Shields up'.

After clicking on that, click on the 'Proceed' button.

On the next page, I usually click the 'All Service Ports' button.

All the squares should show up green.

Let me know if you decide to try it and have an unusual result.






mike