Hi Neil,
I don't know what to suggest, I don't use Microsoft Office, I try not
to use anything Microsoft ;-)
Do you have "Enable Stealth Mode" activated in "Advanced"?
The Leopard application firewall also only blocks inbound connections;
it won’t prevent programs
from making outbound connections.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 17/04/2009, at 8:13 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi Ronni,
No, there is a little application called Microsoft AutoUpdate which
takes
care of all the applications in the Office package - but I have it
set to
check manually to avoid this sort of thing :(
Cheers
Neil
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on 17/4/09 7:41 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote:
Hello Neil,
On 17/04/2009, at 2:39 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
So, a couple of queries:
1) Is this just normal behaviour (ie normal MS annoying feature) -
do other
users find this happens for them (assuming you have the firewall set
to
block incoming connections for Excel & Word).
Perhaps all Microsoft Products (Entourage, Excel, Word, etc) check
for
updates when you launch the application.
Therefore they need access to the Internet.
2) Is there anything else to set (preferences anywhere?) so that
once the
firewall is set to block it just accepts that and doesn't keep
trying to
change my mind!!
Have you checked the Preferences of both Excel & Word to see if you
have "check for Updates" enabled?
Cheers,
Ronni
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