Safety

[willbobby]

Hello
I was just wondering if the raspberry pi 3 has an anti virus software and a firewall.
If it does not, is it possible to get one of them.
Thanks

[sandcrabjarv]

It comes with iptables which you could use for a firewall and you can use apt-get to get an anti-virus think there is a few available example of clamAV install here http://www.ronnutter.com/raspberry-pi-c ... s-install/.

[DougieLawson]

Why do you think you need an antivirus? ClamAV is designed to scan Windows files stored on Linux file systems rather than Linux virii. ClamAV is also a memory and CPU hog.

[B.Goode]

It is reasonable to consider this, but you have to understand the risks you are exposed to before expecting these solutions to act as 'magic bullets.'

Why is your RPi connected to a network in such a way that a firewall is needed? Most home broadband internet routers contain a default firewall that blocks incoming connections. Have you overriden that protection?

How could a virus enter and attack your system?

[ghans]

Change the default password of the "pi" user account !

ghans

[willbobby]

thanks guys

[wildfire]

Have you overriden that protection?

This...

How could a virus enter and attack your system?

... and this, over 90% of my repeat customers is because they have either not taken proper security precautions or actively uninstalled any security software I installed previously believing they no longer require it.

Those issues concern all users on all platforms, windows, linux, andriod etc.