Here goes the question that might likely get me laughed out of the community so to speak, but is a firewall necessary?
I'm running 8.0 Release, and i've not done a thing regarding security since my install other than keep up with the freebsd-update tool. Internet security stuff was always a bit too technical for me (I look at iptables stuff and it makes my head hurt). I used to use a program called Guarddog a long time ago on Slackware which wrote iptables and basically disabled any services I clicked off.
Is there anything required of a regular desktop user that any of you who aren't super-paranoid feel is mandatory? I'm fairly convinced FreeBSD is quite secure out of the box to begin with. I don't keep much extremely sensitive data on my computer to begin with, but as long as someone can't intercept my password to my online banking login or something, i'm good to go.
Sorry if this a moronic set of questions fellas. Web security. Some of us just aren't that educated!
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I'm running 8.0 Release, and i've not done a thing regarding security since my install other than keep up with the freebsd-update tool. Internet security stuff was always a bit too technical for me (I look at iptables stuff and it makes my head hurt). I used to use a program called Guarddog a long time ago on Slackware which wrote iptables and basically disabled any services I clicked off.
Is there anything required of a regular desktop user that any of you who aren't super-paranoid feel is mandatory? I'm fairly convinced FreeBSD is quite secure out of the box to begin with. I don't keep much extremely sensitive data on my computer to begin with, but as long as someone can't intercept my password to my online banking login or something, i'm good to go.
Sorry if this a moronic set of questions fellas. Web security. Some of us just aren't that educated!
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