[60585] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Aug 14 12:26:20 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:23:12 +0200
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0308141544090.19594@rampart.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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.
