Snort on Mandrake 9.0

["Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)" <E.M.J.Vaessen () MDI RWS MINVENW NL>]

Hello,

I have installed mandrake 9.0 on a single home PC connected to the internet
(ISP xs4all, the Netherlands) by ADSL. At times I may be connected to the
internet for hours.
The security setting (using msec) was set to "high". Furthermore I tried to
set the firewall using the menu Mandrake provides for that but in that
simple menu I could not let the firewall apply to any service (not even
cups) without blocking the contact between my browser (Netscape 7.0) and the
internet. It is not something I understand. As far as I can guess there is
no firewall at all on my system.
Out of curiosity I installed snort and the question is if this is a sensible
thing to do in order to improve the protection of my system. I read
somewhere that snort itself may be vulnerable without a firewall in between.

As you may deduce from this I am a complete newbie in the field of security.

Ed Vaessen

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