I was recently introduced to Little Snitch and tcpblock as firewalls for the Mac. At home, I downloaded and tested each, along with reviewing Mac's built-in firewall.
So far, only Little Snitch prompts me for any incoming and outgoing traffic, and has a nice side option of resolving DNS IPs. The larger question is what other programs do people recommend for a network/firewall monitor for Mac OS? I have Snow Leopard. I'd rather go with free, but tcpblock, even with Growl installed, did nothing to prompt me for anything. They simply existed on the system, taking up resources. I ended up uninstalling them. I found http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/utilities/little-snitch-vs-hands-off-which-monitoring-utility-is-better/ per a google search of "little snitch reviews" I'd like to learn what other people do and use on their Macs. I don't mind manual dns lookups, but it would be nice to learn what is out there, and, in particular, what people use. I have used noscript on firefox, but I actively use chrome now since Firefox has given me problems under MacOS. Thanks for your experiences and insights. Scott _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
