GlowWorm - Control Outbound Network Traffic | TUAW

There is a powerful firewall built into the UNIX underpinning of OS X, but getting access to its power is sometimes difficult. GlowWorm FW Lite is a network utility that allows you to control outbound network traffic on your Mac. You can set up relatively simple rules by which "you can easily define the behavior that is acceptable on the basis of a particular application, host or ip address, port number, and any combination thereof, and what action to take if such an event occurs." This seems to be similar in functionality to the Little Snitch, but Glowworm is free (however the registration process is slightly arduous).

[Via MacFreeWare]

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unknowndevice

I have version 1.0.11 (281) and under Logging tab it says "Coming Soon"

Maybe you're talking about your beta version.

Anyways keep the good work!

January 01 2007 at 1:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Curtis Jones

What are you talking about? I added Logging support (on a per-rule basis) last week. Here's the full feature list: http://glowworm.us/product.html

January 01 2007 at 6:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Macskeeball

While software like this and Little Snitch is a good idea in theory, any software running on a given computer is vulnerable to any other software also running on that same computer. In other words, it is very possible for developers who are aware of these programs to bypass them.

Software like this certainly can't hurt because they're better than nothing, but try not to get a false sense of security.

December 31 2006 at 4:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

unknowndevice

Works good for me

No logging yet thought

December 31 2006 at 1:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Taxman

I can't get the registration process to complete.

December 31 2006 at 1:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

A. R.

oo this looks promising - hope it works like little snitch.

December 31 2006 at 12:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply