Existing users, 
Do you want industry's best firewall for FREE?!
In OS X, go to...
- System Preferences
- Click on "Sharing"
- Click on the "Firewall" button (top middle)
- Start your Firewall if it is off
- Click on "Advanced..." (lower right)
- Check "Enable Stealth Mode" to turn it on
- Click on "OK"
- Quit System Preferences
Done!
I work in the Apple computer industry and have heard nothing but complaints about Norton's software on Apple computers. They hog system resources and are infamous for causing all sorts of crashes and slowdowns.
Your Mac already has an awesome dead-bolt on it's doors, no reason to use Norton Duct Tape as "added protection".
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall
helps defend against hackers (use LiveUpdate)
Version: 3.0.3
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Contributed by: gmjm Wednesday, July 27 2005 @ 06:23 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOS,MacOSX
Used Product For: Have Not Tried
Recommend Product: NO
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Do you want industry's best firewall for FREE?! - gmjm
The very best virus protection for Mac?ALL virus protection programs for Mac do only ONE thing; they check your email attachments for WINDOWS viruses so you don't spread them to your Windows usin' friends.
As long as you don't forward any email that contains attachments, you will be fine. You don't need ANY programs to do that.
Currently, and for the past 5 YEARS, there has been NO MAC VIRUSES! If and when a virus does get created, it will make tremendous news, and you know that Apple will jump on it faster than any virus protection company will be able to.
I work for a company that has over 30 Macs running on a Mac server. Every Mac has full internet access and not one piece of virus-ware is running on the whole system. We use Mac's own firewall (as I explained above) to prevent any onlookers from accessing our system. We do have the logging function turned on (in "Advanced...") so we can see who is trying to break in, but with Stealth mode on, there hasn't been anyone even trying to ping us in over 2 months.
Don't allow the FUD (Fear - Uncertainty - Doubt) of the WIndows community drag you into their own Hellish world of digital paranoia. You can very safely get rid of all virus checkers and especially 3rd party firewalls, and just keep you Mac's own firewall on. That's it!
If you don't believe me or you need more reassurance, do what our company does. About once per month, we go to our local Apple store. They, too, are running dozens of Macs on a Mac server, all on the internet without any virus protection, and we ask them if they have added any other protections. We do whatever they do. So far, they have no intentions of doing anything different.
If Apple's own stores don't use it, neither do we.
Thursday, July 28 2005 @ 05:54 AM PDT
Do you want industry's best firewall for FREE?! - lionheart1
Hi,Thanks for the tip.
Now--I have read so many articles and comments about Symantec and Norton..I have been using(?) Norton for about a year now and am not really sure--after all these comments, that it is working at all to protect my Mac against viruses-trojans-worms--etc.
What , in your opinion, is the very best Virus protection program built for my IMac G4-Panther version 10.3.9?
Thanks
LionHeart
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Wednesday, July 27 2005 @ 11:25 AM PDT