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I am new to ubuntu 18.04.1 lts it says that( A built in firewall and virus protection are avaliable) it says to go to activities left payne but there are no icons there for firewall or virus protection.

Do l need the internet set up on ubuntu for it to show. Does avaliable mean l have to start it, enable it or what?.

Can you please tell me where l can find it as it describes, It also says that yo get addded security with App Armor and gnomekeyring but where are these too as l cant find them anywhere.

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Ubuntu does indeed ship with a firewall by default, UFW (stands for Uncomplicated FireWall ) to be specific, since version 8.04. There's only command-line front-end to the firewall in default installation, and you can enable that via 

sudo ufw enable

There is optional GUI front-end, called GUFW. It's available in default software repositories and can be installed via Software Center or sudo apt install gufw in terminal.

As for virus protection I'm assuming you're talking about antivirus. Long story short, due to differences between Windows and Linux systems you're safe from Windows specific malware and in general Linux users do not use antivirus, however such software is still available for installation. See What antivirus programs are available?

Note that you don't need internet connection to enable firewall, though you do need internet connection for installing software from repositories.

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