[Hobbes]

I just installed the Test Drive of MS Office, and was disturbed by the fact that there are background MS proccess running, resulting in increased disk activity (disk churns every couple of seconds). I found an article on <a href="http://www.macsecurity.org" target="_blank">www.macsecurity.org</a> stating that Office opens ports on your machine.

Has anyone else heard anything else about this? If your running BrickHouse, will it stop any access via Office? Or does Office somehow bypass that?

[philthy san]

use terminal to block port 2222

sudo ipfw add deny udp from any to any 2222

[Hobbes]

Thanks for the reply. Instead of using the Terminal, I went into BrickHouse and created two filters...

... to deny incoming udp traffic on port 2222...

... and to deny outgoing udp traffic on port 2222.

Will that work just as good?

Thanks again.

[philthy san]

can't see why it wouldn't work in the same way, plus it'll work at startup if brickhouse is in control of it

[Hobbes]

Thanks again for the reply.

Sorry for putting this in the wrong forum. Talk about a major brain fart. Didn't even realize I wasn't in Software forum. Mods, please transfer this thread.

Thanks