On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On donderdag, aug 14, 2003, at 17:45 Europe/Amsterdam, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
No answer on that one, However Mac OS X also includes a built in firewall.
yes, with fairly a simple method to add listening services to it... though it seems the 'listening service' might have to register with the OS in order to be seen in the preferences panel? Oh, and lest I forget (which I did) press the 'START' button to make it active :)
...which is completely redundant because MacOS X doesn't expose any services except the ones that the user enabled in the first place.
or things like livewire/kazaa/aim (filedownloads)
So enabling the firewall is only useful if you don't trust the applications you're running.
yup. but its nice that it has the damned firewall anyway :)