issue with firewall

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issue with firewall

The firewall doesn't seem to be working properly. When set to “Set access for specific services and applications” Any software that should get added to the list isn't doing so.

So i added them manually and to test it out had Safari on "block incoming connection" but it is still able to connect.

Is there something i'm doing wrong?

Macbook 2.4 (Aluminum), Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on May 10, 2009 11:34 PM

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Answer 1

May 11, 2009 4:34 AM in response to MaR13

MaR13,

Welcome to the Forums! From what I take on it is if you open Safari then the firewall allows you to use it, what blocking inbound connections does is stop someone outside of your computer from starting Safari and navigating it to a hostile site. Same goes for other such apps.

Some light reading:
http://www.macworld.com/article/131116/2007/12/firewall.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/132558/2008/03/connect2504.html

Hope that helps,
Weston

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X_console

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May 11, 2009 6:52 AM in response to MaR13

Block incoming connections means a remote machine connecting to Safari. Some applications run as both client and server. File sharing software is a good example since you allow people to share files with you and you share files with them. If you configured your firewall to block incoming connections for file sharing applications then you would be able to access files from other users but they wouldn't be able to access your files.

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