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Other firewall software running on your computer - wha?
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tkmd
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Nov 30, 2004, 06:02 PM
 
So I read that article in USA today (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041130-4426.html) and kinda got freaked (pretty good huh?) so I decide to turn on the firewall in OS X. and I got a message saying that I have another firewall running and so I cant turn on the firewall that is in OS X. What? I dont have any other firewall that I put on. The only thing that I did was that I did was put 64 bit encryption on my router last night. Could this be what OS X is seeing as a firewall?

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Nov 30, 2004, 06:29 PM
 
This means that at some point you, or some program on your behalf, modified the firewall/routing rules. The control panel sees this and knowing that it could very well screw up an already working system, tells you that it will not touch this.

Here is MacOS X Hints advice on the subject.
     
   
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