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Am I the dumb a$$ of the century? - DP - 01-18-2015
Firewall? I was checking on some things in SysPrefs and noticed the Firewall box is not checked. I have just presumed that the browsers I've used have all that stuff covered and I have never experienced any issues-no malware, trojans, etc.
So, should the Firewall be activated in SysPrefs? Am I also the luckiest interwebs surfer ever as well as the dumbest?
Re: Am I the dumb a$$ of the century? - Forrest - 01-18-2015
Yes, you should turn on the firewall.
Re: Am I the dumb a$$ of the century? - Grateful11 - 01-18-2015
I guess I must be dumba$$ #2, mine was turned off on my MBA.
Re: Am I the dumb a$$ of the century? - Forrest - 01-18-2015
On a recent OSX 10.9 install, I noticed the Firewall is disabled by default. This is different than older versions of OSX (10.6).
Re: Am I the dumb a$$ of the century? - JoeH - 01-18-2015
The firewall is off on my install of 10.6, and I never turned it off. I think it has always been optional and not on by default.
Edit. Just checked the Help section and that confirmed my recollection. The statement there was that teh OS shipped with all services off by default, and had to be enabled to be active. The firewall was listed as an additional level of security that could be turned on.
Re: Am I the dumb a$$ of the century? - space-time - 01-18-2015
the century is still young. there is plenty of time to be outclassed
Re: Am I the dumb a$$ of the century? - silvarios - 01-18-2015
Forrest wrote:
On a recent OSX 10.9 install, I noticed the Firewall is disabled by default. This is different than older versions of OSX (10.6).
Pretty sure OS X has never enabled the firewall by default.
Re: Am I the dumb a$$ of the century? - Numo - 01-18-2015
space-time wrote:
the century is still young. there is plenty of time to be outclassed
And the competition will be fierce.
Re: Am I the dumb a$$ of the century? - rgG - 01-18-2015
Ammo wrote:
[quote=space-time]
the century is still young. there is plenty of time to be outclassed
And the competition will be fierce.
Doubtful you will hold the title for more than an hour or two, at most.
Re: Am I the dumb a$$ of the century? - Paul F. - 01-18-2015
silvarios wrote:
[quote=Forrest]
On a recent OSX 10.9 install, I noticed the Firewall is disabled by default. This is different than older versions of OSX (10.6).
Pretty sure OS X has never enabled the firewall by default.
Well, I'm not so sure of that... I did some Mavericks installs that "killed" a messenging app we use at work.. Finally figured out it was the OSX firewall - which had been off, but was on after the Mavericks install. Might have been something else, but I sure didn't turn it on (our firewalling is handled by routers for themachinesi n question).