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GlowWorm - Control Outbound Network Traffic
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
a.r. said 12:25PM on 12-31-2006
oo this looks promising - hope it works like little snitch.
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taxman said 1:29PM on 12-31-2006
I can't get the registration process to complete.
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Macskeeball said 4:08PM on 12-31-2006
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.
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Eric said 4:29PM on 12-31-2006
Works good for me
No logging yet thought
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Curtis Jones said 6:56AM on 1-01-2007
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
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Eric said 1:08PM on 1-01-2007
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!
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