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<blockquote data-quote="RobertC" data-source="post: 611395" data-attributes="member: 50493"><p><strong>Firewall</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>I am new to the forum, but think I can help. In Leopard, if you go to Apple Menu - System Preferences - Security - Firewall, and put a tick in the "Set Access for certain applications", and click on the plus below the box to add in certain applications, like Mail and Safari. If you are logged in as admin, or your admin is around, if you click on advanced, you can enable Stealth Mode, giving greater protection to your computer. If you are using 10.4 you can ignore that because this link <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1042.html" target="_blank">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1042.html</a>, will take you to an Apple Support page, that explains it for you</p><p></p><p>We do not use an anti-virus because disguised files that can damage Windows PCs (.exe) are not used in UNIX systems (Mac OS X and Linux). If however you are planning on using Vista / XP (but considering you are new to Macs I would assume not!!) in Boot Camp, then they will need anti-virus installed. I hope this helps you.</p><p></p><p>Robert</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RobertC, post: 611395, member: 50493"] [b]Firewall[/b] Hi I am new to the forum, but think I can help. In Leopard, if you go to Apple Menu - System Preferences - Security - Firewall, and put a tick in the "Set Access for certain applications", and click on the plus below the box to add in certain applications, like Mail and Safari. If you are logged in as admin, or your admin is around, if you click on advanced, you can enable Stealth Mode, giving greater protection to your computer. If you are using 10.4 you can ignore that because this link [url]http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1042.html[/url], will take you to an Apple Support page, that explains it for you We do not use an anti-virus because disguised files that can damage Windows PCs (.exe) are not used in UNIX systems (Mac OS X and Linux). If however you are planning on using Vista / XP (but considering you are new to Macs I would assume not!!) in Boot Camp, then they will need anti-virus installed. I hope this helps you. Robert [/QUOTE]
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