Hi Ronni, Hehe... I'm not really a fan of MS in general either!
Unfortunately I do a lot of work in Excel and have quite some time invested in various spreadsheets with macros etc (which is why I won't be upgrading to Office 2008). Also I guess I have years of experience with Excel and actually quite like the program. When it gets to the stage that Office 2004 won't play with the latest OSX I guess I'll have to rethink - but by then Numbers might be sufficiently advanced or MS might have gone back to supporting macros... The problem isn't with outward connections anyway... MS seems to make OSX keep prompting me to allow incoming connections - even when I've already told it to block Excel & Word. No worries really, everything still works just fine - I just find it annoying when it keeps asking me and I've already told it once!! It would still be good to know (from anybody who uses Excel a lot) whether this is standard behaviour or if it is some setting I've missed. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/4/09 8:29 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: > Hi Neil, > > I don't know what to suggest, I don't use Microsoft Office, I try not > to use anything Microsoft ;-) > > Do you have "Enable Stealth Mode" activated in "Advanced"? > > The Leopard application firewall also only blocks inbound connections; > it won¹t prevent programs > from making outbound connections. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 17/04/2009, at 8:13 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> Hi Ronni, >> >> No, there is a little application called Microsoft AutoUpdate which >> takes >> care of all the applications in the Office package - but I have it >> set to >> check manually to avoid this sort of thing :( >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com >> >> >> on 17/4/09 7:41 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: >> >>> Hello Neil, >>> >>> On 17/04/2009, at 2:39 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: >>>> >>>> So, a couple of queries: >>>> >>>> 1) Is this just normal behaviour (ie normal MS annoying feature) - >>>> do other >>>> users find this happens for them (assuming you have the firewall set >>>> to >>>> block incoming connections for Excel & Word). >>> >>> Perhaps all Microsoft Products (Entourage, Excel, Word, etc) check >>> for >>> updates when you launch the application. >>> Therefore they need access to the Internet. >>> >>>> >>>> 2) Is there anything else to set (preferences anywhere?) so that >>>> once the >>>> firewall is set to block it just accepts that and doesn't keep >>>> trying to >>>> change my mind!! >>> >>> Have you checked the Preferences of both Excel & Word to see if you >>> have "check for Updates" enabled? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
