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On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:30 AM, malcolm wrote: > Do you think a personal firewall like Ubuntu's ufw is necessary in a home > environment or is the router's firewall sufficient (with the other measures > you suggest) for the current level of threat? After I add a disclaimer that I don't know very much about both existing and possible future threats on Linux, nor do I know a great deal about firewalls, I think that in a home environment, running a firewall on the router is generally sufficient. But then, if it doesn't hurt your experience of using the computer, I don't see why you wouldn't run an internal firewall was well. For one thing, it does help bad stuff from spreading inside the network. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq