Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled

Thu Aug 14 16:23:12 UTC 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.