Net Barrier is the closest thing I can think of.

http://www.intego.com 

HTH,

Glenn

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jim Rosenberg
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 9:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Seeking personal firewall for Mac OS X

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.
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