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Monday, April 13, 2009

LINUX FIRE WALL - GUFW 0.20.7

LINUX GUFW firewall-0.20.7 

Security in Internet connection or Local Area network, we need the system that can maintain the security of our system from virus, malware and others attacks. 

This can be done with by installing Fire wall. In Linux Operating System distributions, especially Ubuntu, the process of creating a firewall using iptables sintax can be difficult for some users. 

Using Gufw can be the Solutions for this, Gufw is a graphical application based firewall that is easy to use. For back-end applications, application package Gufw use ufw in the Netfilter firewall management . 

To start a fire wall, you check it on the firewall option enabled in the start page gufw, then you only need to allow / deny various incoming connections in the network. 

On the page RULE, you can simply choose which port and protocol are allowed (allow traffic) or prohibited (deny traffic) on the host computer.

Rule can also be used to Limit IP Port (Protecting Against brute force login attacks). In addition you can also activate the option ufw enable log to record all the firewall that is in progress. 

Gufw is an application that is right for you who want to strengthen the security of your computer system by using a firewall. 

GPL License 
Dependencies ufw> = 0.23.2, Python-glade2> = 2.13 

Minimum specifications:
Processor Pentium IV
Hard Drive 10 Mb 
Memory 256 Mb


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