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Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Thu Aug 14 12:28:19 2003

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.



So enabling the firewall is only useful if you don't trust the
applications you're running.