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Do I need A firewall and antivirus?

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by silverduck441

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If I boot into a linux distro with a cd do I need to add a Firewall and Antivirus. Knoppix Cd.

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by jaqui

iptables will be installed and active, that is a firewall

and antivirus in linux is only to protect windows machines from getting infected. there isn't any antivirus for linux to stop linux viruses, they die to quickly to need any.

by jdclyde

one top of that, wouldn't the issue of this being a boot cd instead of an install make it even more secure as there is less that can be subject to intrusion?

How "at risk" is the windows install sitting on the hard drive that isn't booted to?

by akalinowski

(sorry i'm going to get off topic)
too much confidence and your system will get pwnt...there are AV for and yes, they are needed, not as much so in windows boxes, but needed none the less, same for mac osx

www.nod32.com
^ best *nix AV imo

by ludedude25

If i'm on my home network and along with my other computers protected by my router's firewall do I really need to install the Linux firewall ??

by jaqui

just like you need a firewall on a windows system in the same situation.

just because Linux has better security model does not mean that there are zero risks.
It only mean there are fewer risks.

by andrew06

I have used various Live Distros of Linux including Whoppix, Knoppix, Auditor.

I am yet to come across a live cd that will give you total write permissions over a physics drive.

Unless I am missing something, please point it out but I thought that was the point of a dedicated Live-boot CD. That nothing was stored on the harddrive, only in RAM.

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