Rammjet Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 GlowWorm FW Lite - can help you protect your privacy by enabling you to control your computer at the network level. Through a simple system of Rules you can easily define the behavior that is acceptable on the basis of a particular application, host or ip address, port number, and any combination thereof, and what action to take if such an event occurs. A default set of rules is included to get you started. GlowWorm FW Lite is a completely free download. A more sophisticated (non-free) version is planned, and feedback received regarding this free version will help guide development. Mac OS X 10.4 is required to use GlowWorm FW Lite. http://glowworm.us/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36115-glowworm-fw-lite/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuruu Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Free little snitch alternative? That's got to be good. Be better if this was open source... [paranoid] i'm always wondering if little snitch calls home... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36115-glowworm-fw-lite/#findComment-257157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBK.Xscape Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 haha i know, thats the one thing that little snitch doesnt tell you about huh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36115-glowworm-fw-lite/#findComment-257298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtis Jones Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 That's a valid concern. With GlowWorm, it has to automatically add some rules to enable basic functionality (like geocoding ip addresses) where the feature would be utterly annoying otherwise (ie, an alert window for every alert window ... you can see the problem there, I hope). To allow for this, there is an "invisible" set of rules (ie, Rule Editor doesn't request them - although there's no reason it couldn't) that plugins can use for such purposes. I've been considering extending Rule Editor to allow a user to see these rules, but the consequences of messing with them ... I'd probably have to answer a barrage of support emails after people started messing with them. I suppose that if you ran GW and LS simultaneously, you could see all of the secret things each were doing. I'm not brave enough to run both programs on my computer at the same time. Lastly ... I knew that it would largely defeat the purpose of this type of program if I caused it to phone-home for, say, purposes of serial number registration - and I wanted to avoid that. So, instead of having a traditional serial number, I had to go with something more complicated (and consequently, more flexible). Can't please everyone.... -- Curtis Jones cjones@glowworm.us www.glowworm.us Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36115-glowworm-fw-lite/#findComment-261339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 haha i know, thats the one thing that little snitch doesnt tell you about huh. Yes it does, it rings home to check if your serial is valid or one of the commonly used "alternatives," in which case it will appear to register then get stuck in permanent demo mode. ... of course if you install it with your cable unplugged, then add a rule banning it from accessing it's server.... not that I would encourage that kind of behaviour or anything Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36115-glowworm-fw-lite/#findComment-261350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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