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Hi Marcos and Emilio,

Yes, I do have: 
Versión Gufw: 10.04.4
Versión ufw: ufw 0.30pre1-0ubuntu2

Marcos, here I send you a new video of this bug along with its
respective log with script enabled (after cleaning registry and
reconfiguring Gufw), as per your request.

Otherwise, Emilio, concerning your question, I think it's safer to deny
everything, then to open just the 3 or 4 ports and protocols you do need
for surfing or mailing (and only outgoing, of course). This is also the
opinion of Simon Edwards (the creator of Guarddog).

And a Linux firewall can be (still) safer, if on a per-application
explicit permission basis (yes, like in Windows). This was the approach
of Tuxguardian or linux-firewall.org among others.

In Linux normally we do trust on the software we install (through
repositories), but as the number of Linux users increases, then not only
more malware creators will turn their eyes to this operating system, but
also more users will download applications from different websites or
other untrusted sources.

Both reasons seem to advise the use of on a per-application basis
firewall, also in Linux.

But, while somebody makes such per-application-basis firewall, the
ability to deny also outgoing connections it's quite welcome.



** Attachment added: "14-5-2010 GUFW 10.04 bug video .tar.gz"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48417567/14-5-2010%20GUFW%2010.04%20bug%20video%20.tar.gz

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GUFW erases the rule not selected to be erased
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578404
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Status in Gufw: Confirmed
Status in “gui-ufw” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Hello,

The new GUFW for the 10.04 version of Ubuntu has the new and nice feature of being able to block/allow
also outgoing connections,.. GUFW is now at the same level of security than Guarddog was. 

It makes Ubuntu still safer. And, as per I know, GUFW really works OK for incoming and outgoing connections.

I have found one small bug, however: When I try to erase a rule it's erased some another rule, instead. Curiously,
this only happens trying to erase rules allowing incoming connections. 

This is somehow annoying because trying to erase the incoming rule.. One may end up erasing most other rules,
before.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gufw 10.04.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 10 19:37:02 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gui-ufw