Daveleh Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 Hi Guys (and gals :wink: ) I have a couple of questions regarding the above subjects, I wonder if anyone can shed anylights I have recently setup Tinyfirewall on my Mandrake8.2 system. Now it is setup what or where do I check for suspicious activity? When I used WIN98 I used Zonealarm and this would advise me when something was trying to gain access to my pc. Does TinyFireWall do the same :?: I have also recently installed Clamantivirus. When I run the clamscan test as per the pdf instructions it creates a document in my home directory called scan.txt which tells me that it has found the test viruses but I can't seem to find where it stores the information regarding which viruses it has found and where they are :?: Also I take it that Clam is just a virus checker and not a virus killer is that correct :?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest defunct Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 well you cant get viruses like you can in windows.. there aren't many worms for linux.. also tinyfirewall doesn't alert you like zonealarm.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 Unfortunately, tinyfirewall doesn't do a warning thing, unless you are looking at the logs. If you want to test how secure your firewall is, go to http://www.grc.com There are a few tests in there to check how secure your computer is. I never heard of clamantivirus, can you give me more information or a link to where can I find the product? I prefer fprot anyway for antivirus software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveleh Posted October 9, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2002 Hi Defunct, you said: well you cant get viruses like you can in windows.. there aren't many worms for linux.. also tinyfirewall doesn't alert you like zonealarm.... I realise that Linux doesnt suffer from viruses the same way that windows does, but I will shortly be joining on online discussion group which are no doubt going to be mainly windows users. Therefore I want to be sure that any attachments they send to me, which I may need to forward on, are virus free for their sakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveleh Posted October 9, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2002 Hi DragonMage, you said: Unfortunately, tinyfirewall doesn't do a warning thing, unless you are looking at the logs. Ok, so where would I find these logs :?: If you want to test how secure your firewall is, go to http://www.grc.com There are a few tests in there to check how secure your computer is. Thanks I'll check that out I never heard of clamantivirus, can you give me more information or a link to where can I find the product? I prefer fprot anyway for antivirus software. It was included on a recent Linux Format cover DVD but can also be found at http://clam.elektrapro.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 9, 2002 Report Share Posted October 9, 2002 The logs are located in /var/log directory. You should check and delete some of the older logs. There are many people suddenly finding their / directory full and finding out they have a gazillion gig of wasted space in their log directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted October 9, 2002 Report Share Posted October 9, 2002 The logs are located in /var/log directory. You should check and delete some of the older logs. There are many people suddenly finding their / directory full and finding out they have a gazillion gig of wasted space in their log directory. here's a simple fix which I use on every machine now a 100-200mb partition for /var/log and just incase a 100-200mb partition for /tmp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveleh Posted October 10, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2002 Hi DragonMage, you said: The logs are located in /var/log directory. You should check and delete some of the older logs. There are many people suddenly finding their / directory full and finding out they have a gazillion gig of wasted space in their log directory. Thanks for that. I'll check it out :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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