On Thursday, February 20, 2020 10:39:06 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/20/20 11:46 AM, home user wrote: > > > (F-30; Gnome; stand-alone home workstation) > > > > Sometime last year, I saw an article that talked about a tool that > > quickly and easily shows attempts to hack in to a computer. I think it > > was either in the Fedora magazine or Gnome's website. I've since made > > multiple attempts to find that article, but failed. I'm needing to > > check for hack-in attempts (something I suppose I should do > > quazi-periodically anyway). What is the tool/application to do that? If > > such a tool/application does not exist, then what is the best way for me > > to do that? > > > Given that you are behind a router, the chance of any direct hacking > attempts is extremely unlikely. Even if you went on a public wifi, you > are only "at risk" from the other users at your current location (unless > it's a wider network like some places have). He explicitly stated he is NOT behind a router. Hence my advice, because of GNOME spin's horrible default firewall. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
