[X Newbies] Is Apple's Firewall app any good?

Eugene Lee list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net
Thu Sep 25 20:57:08 PDT 2003


On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:42:00PM -0700, Paul Korntheuer wrote:
: 
: If I may move on to yet another topic; Apple's Firewall app. Is it any good?
: Should I trust it or should I look into other third party Firewall apps. Is
: there a way to check to logs of Apple's Firewall from time to time to see if
: I've had any unwanted visitors?

I don't think the built-in firewire in OS X is set to log.  Otherwise,
it's pretty good.  But why do you want to enable the firewall in the
first place?  OS X does not ship with any open access to your Mac.


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