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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1710082" data-attributes="member: 190607">Some thoughts:I've been on a bunch of Mac discussion lists for decades now, and I have been a member of several Macintosh user groups, and I have some extremely popular Web sites.&nbsp; In other words I've been in touch with many many thousands of Mac users.&nbsp; Most of those Mac users have run with no firewall enabled at all.&nbsp; (Most users probably don't even know what a firewall is.) Yet...I've yet to hear first hand of a believable instance of a Macintosh user having been hacked.So, it seems to me that if you enable the hardware firewall in your router, that's all that you need to do.&nbsp; And you probably don't even need to do that.&nbsp; But since it doesn't hurt anything to enable your router's firewall, and it doesn't cost anything, it would seem to be a good idea.Second, the arrival of ransomware for the Macintosh seems to be inevitable.&nbsp; We have already seen an instance of it.&nbsp; <a href="https://blog.malwarebytes.org/cybercrime/2016/03/first-mac-ransomware-spotted/" target="_blank">https://blog.malwarebytes.org/cybercrime/2016/03/first-mac-ransomware-spotted/</a>Here is a very interesting new product:RansomWhere?&nbsp; (free)<a href="https://objective-see.com/products/ransomwhere.html" target="_blank">https://objective-see.com/products/ransomwhere.html</a>RansomWhere? attempts to thwart OS X ransomware by continually monitoring the file-system for the creation of encrypted files by suspicious processes.Sounds like it might be worthwhile protection given the extreme malicious nature of ransomware.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1710082, member: 190607"] Some thoughts: I've been on a bunch of Mac discussion lists for decades now, and I have been a member of several Macintosh user groups, and I have some extremely popular Web sites. In other words I've been in touch with many many thousands of Mac users. Most of those Mac users have run with no firewall enabled at all. (Most users probably don't even know what a firewall is.) Yet...I've yet to hear first hand of a believable instance of a Macintosh user having been hacked. So, it seems to me that if you enable the hardware firewall in your router, that's all that you need to do. And you probably don't even need to do that. But since it doesn't hurt anything to enable your router's firewall, and it doesn't cost anything, it would seem to be a good idea. Second, the arrival of ransomware for the Macintosh seems to be inevitable. We have already seen an instance of it. [url]https://blog.malwarebytes.org/cybercrime/2016/03/first-mac-ransomware-spotted/[/url] Here is a very interesting new product: RansomWhere? (free) [url]https://objective-see.com/products/ransomwhere.html[/url] RansomWhere? attempts to thwart OS X ransomware by continually monitoring the file-system for the creation of encrypted files by suspicious processes. Sounds like it might be worthwhile protection given the extreme malicious nature of ransomware. [/QUOTE]

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