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Which firewall are you using? The one builtin on OSX?
by weslly 14y ago
Which firewall are you using? The one builtin on OSX?
- chm 14y agoI don't want to hijack the thread, but I am using the built-in OS X firewall. Anything wrong with that?
- weslly 14y agoNope, just want to know (since I use it too but i'm looking for something better)
- andreyf 14y ago> Anything wrong with that? If you want to protect against the kind of attach he hypothesizes to have experienced, yes. Trying to catch root backdoor on your machine by running a firewall on that same machine won't be much help. He called it an "external firewall", so I imagine it was a separate machine that noticed the outgoing requests.
- chm 14y agoThat I understand, but I was wondering if there were inherent problems with the standard FW.
- memracom 14y agoYes, there are inherent problems with the built-in firewall. The bad guys know it is there so any exploit that they install will likely modify the firewall to cover their tracks. External firewalls can be trusted more than built-in software.
- jlgaddis 14y agoI would be surprised if the built-in firewall even blocks any outgoing connections by default. I'm not on my MBP at the moment so I can't check for sure.