Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: About the Application Firewall
November 15th, 2007 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison |(Via Apple Support - Most Recent Mac OS X Articles.)
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard includes a new technology called the Application Firewall.
One of the basic purposes of a firewall is to control connections made to your computer from other computers on the network. In most firewall software, you must know the network ports and protocols an application uses to communicate, in order to control that application’s network connections.
Note: This article applies to the version of the Application Firewall included with Mac OS X 10.5.1 and later. Update to Mac OS X 10.5.1 or later if you have not yet done so.
The Firewall in Leopard is an
