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"Accept Incoming Network Connections"? Popup - How can I stop it?

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bully worm

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Sep 17, 2009
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Everytime I open up Office Word or Itunes, this popup repeatedly shows up even though I accept "Allow" every single time.

I have gone into System pref->Firewall and see that it is set on "Allow Incoming Connections".

I've tried deleting it from the list and re-adding it again but it still shows up.

I'm running 10.6.4 on a late 09 UMBP with the latest version of Word and Itunes.

Anyone got a fix for this nuisance?
 
bully worm said:
Everytime I open up Office Word or Itunes, this popup repeatedly shows up even though I accept "Allow" every single time.

I have gone into System pref->Firewall and see that it is set on "Allow Incoming Connections".

I've tried deleting it from the list and re-adding it again but it still shows up.

I'm running 10.6.4 on a late 09 UMBP with the latest version of Word and Itunes.

Anyone got a fix for this nuisance?
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It's probably easiest to reinstall iTunes.

If the firewall does not remember your choice, then the digital signature (Code Signing) of iTunes is broken. By default, the OS X firewall accepts any software that was signed by Apple without even asking you. So: it should not have asked you. And once asked, it should be able to remember, based on the digital signature. A broken signature (for example caused by changing the contents of the iTunes.app package) will prevent all this.

(Did you by any chance manually change the iTunes icon the application somehow? Or did you install some plugins?)

You can validate the signature of your iTunes by copying the first line and paste it in Terminal:

Code: 
codesign -vvv /Applications/iTunes.app/

/Applications/iTunes.app/: valid on disk
/Applications/iTunes.app/: satisfies its Designated Requirement
 
Okay iTunes seems like it is working just fine now without the annoying popup.

But Microsoft Word is still showing it. Do you also have a fix for that?

Thank you for your help by the way kind sir.
 
bully worm said:
Okay iTunes seems like it is working just fine now without the annoying popup.

But Microsoft Word is still showing it. Do you also have a fix for that?

Thank you for your help by the way kind sir.
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Try the same for Microsoft Office.

Code: 
codesign-vvv / Applications / iTunes.app /
Instead of "/ Applications / iTunes.app /" put the address to the application that opens when you start Office Word.

But I have never worked with Microsoft Office, so only guess.

Or really reinstall Office.
 
Popup Stop

I got the same annoying messages in both Word & Excel 2008 (Mac). Here are the steps I took:

1) I used the "CleanMyMac 2" utility to locate and delete all the prefs associated with Word/Excel/Office
2) deleted com.apple.alf.plist from /Library/Preferences
3) RESTARTED my Mac (like many of us, we rarely do an actual restart).

That fixed it for me. Life is back to good now.
 
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