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I installed the firewalls Bastille and Guarddog. The first installed fine but didn't seem to work so I removed it. Weird thing is that Kpackage still reports it and I can't remove it (anymore) from KPackage.
Guarddog also installed allright but now I get these damn annoying status messages in my consoles. So I uninstalled Guarddog and apt reported that it was successfully removed, but the messages are still there! How do I remove apps the proper way?
open guard dog, click on the log tab, uncheck all the logging boxes. That will stop the logs from popping up in you console.
My experiences with Linux firewalls are very poor so far. I noticed that Linux doesn't "stealth" it's ports like in Windows (the test was performed on www.grc.com) so I tried Bastille and Guarddog. Nothing changed to my surprise and now I have an annoying frequent message in all my consoles. What a bummer. Uninstalling didn't help either. Now I'm just playing with Linux without net access. Luckily my Knoppix is on a redundant laptop. Hmpf...