I am used to using ZoneAlarm *behind* a network firewall to protect BillWare desktops. ZoneAlarm allows setting policies at the *APPLICATION* level, which a typical network firewall won't. E.g. I can tell ZoneAlarm that my web browser is allowed to talk to the Internet, but my mail client is not. (My mail client needs only to talk to my local mail servers on the LAN behind the network firewall.)
I'm now looking for this kind of functionality on Mac OS X, and not finding anything out there. There are several products that describe themselves as "personal firewalls" for OS X, but the kind of policies they allow you to set are just like those of a network firewall: smart about ports, protocols, sources, destinations, etc., completely dumb about applications. I really like the idea that if some application decides to phone home on port 80 that I haven't said is OK an alert box will pop up to let me decide if I want to allow this or not. Does anyone know of any application level firewall products for OS X comparable to ZoneAlarm? As far as basic packet filtering goes, OS X already comes with ipfw, you don't really need to buy anything. _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
