Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled

["Christopher L. Morrow" <chris () UU NET>]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Scott McGrath wrote:

> No answer on that one, However Mac OS X also includes a built in firewall.

yes, with fairly a simple method to add listening services to it... though
it seems the 'listening service' might have to register with the OS in
order to be seen in the preferences panel? Oh, and lest I forget (which I
did) press the 'START' button to make it active :)

> On the configuration angle, the Microsoft ICF (Internet Connection
> Firewall) blocks everything by default.

as does OSX.