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- Apr 24, 2008
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- MacBookPro, iMac, OS 10.13.6, iPhone 6s iOS 15.1, iPad mini, iOS 9.3.5
Hello.
I just disabled the firewall contained in the Airties modem-router supplied to me by my ISP (Orange): my first line of protection. I believe I needed to do that for the purpose of enabling iTunes to connect to the Apple servers and download the current (9.0.2) update to iOS for my iPad. Otherwise iTunes said internet was "Off" on my home network.
UPnP was enabled. In addition, I also enabled port transfer in UPnP. Checking with Shields Up of GRC, i just verified that UPnP was not discoverable from the WAN side.
Gatekeeper in "On" (in between).
Last the individual firewalls in the two macs are, have always been, disabled.
Since Disinfectant for mac OS 6 and 7, I have not used virus removal tools for ages.
Am I being prudent enough ?
What would be advisable for me to do ?
I just disabled the firewall contained in the Airties modem-router supplied to me by my ISP (Orange): my first line of protection. I believe I needed to do that for the purpose of enabling iTunes to connect to the Apple servers and download the current (9.0.2) update to iOS for my iPad. Otherwise iTunes said internet was "Off" on my home network.
UPnP was enabled. In addition, I also enabled port transfer in UPnP. Checking with Shields Up of GRC, i just verified that UPnP was not discoverable from the WAN side.
Gatekeeper in "On" (in between).
Last the individual firewalls in the two macs are, have always been, disabled.
Since Disinfectant for mac OS 6 and 7, I have not used virus removal tools for ages.
Am I being prudent enough ?
What would be advisable for me to do ?