fartheststar
Mar 4, 2004, 08:53 PM
Hi. When I bought my mac last August, I bought Norton personal firewall. I didn't know about OSX firewall at the time. I finally got so irritated with it questioning me every time it tried to "live update" and every time I tried to edit my website with Macromedia, I uninstalled it and activated the OSX firewall.
Now that I am using that one instead of Norton, I don't get all the errors that I did before, a good thing!
My question: Can I trust that the OSX firewall is doing a good job for me? One thing I did like about Norton is that there was logging and it would notify me if someone got through the firewall (nothing ever did). Also, I hear that the OSX firewall doesn't stop "ping" commands, is that a problem?
Should I be worried about using the OSX firewall? Is there anything I can do to make my OSX firewall better or is there a certain way to configure it for optimal safety?
Running OSX 10.2.8. Thanks!
Now that I am using that one instead of Norton, I don't get all the errors that I did before, a good thing!
My question: Can I trust that the OSX firewall is doing a good job for me? One thing I did like about Norton is that there was logging and it would notify me if someone got through the firewall (nothing ever did). Also, I hear that the OSX firewall doesn't stop "ping" commands, is that a problem?
Should I be worried about using the OSX firewall? Is there anything I can do to make my OSX firewall better or is there a certain way to configure it for optimal safety?
Running OSX 10.2.8. Thanks!
