Very nice tool, fast, easy and reliable. But you should not call it "firewall". DoorstopX is not a firewall at all. It is only an interface for the Mac OS X "ipfw" firewall.
After just buying the Doorstop Suite a couple months ago, I just can't reallly see a reason to upgrade at 40 bucks a crack. Guess I'll look around for something else.
This would be a fine product but for one thing: for some reason, it makes access to the websever running on my machine hideously slow. As a web designer, waiting over a minute for a page to display is simply not acceptable.
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Anonymousreviewed on 04 Aug 2005
One word- Brickhouse
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Anonymousreviewed on 15 Jul 2005
The product is excellent. It's nice to FINALLY have Doorstop as an option again. The $40 (introductory?) price seems far too high. Maybe it's because I already paid that much for the OS 9 version of Doorstop which I had to abandon when OS X was released. And because I paid $34.99 for FireWalk X because there was no Doorstop X for such a long time. Anyway... it is an excellent product. I'm clicking "No" for "Recommend DoorStop X Firewall?" only because of its price -- I can't in good faith recommend it to my friends and colleagues. At $29.99, I'd consider it more of a value.
[Version 1.0]
Anonymousreviewed on 13 Jul 2005
Fails to open- error 5370 on 10.4.2
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Anonymousreviewed on 03 May 2005
Its a bit underhand to suggest in your programme that if doorstop is not running your mac is unprotected.
What about the built in firewall?
Whilst we are on the subject what exactly does this software do that the firewall does not? Apart from some nice looking icons there doesn't appear to be anything different.
[Version 1.0b1]
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Philih reviewed on 11 Apr 2011
Finally I think NoobProof is a little more trustworthy because this app is from 2009 and NoobProof is an Opensource-Program.
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It's a common mistake of MU i think.
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Anonymous reviewed on 04 Aug 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 03 May 2005
What about the built in firewall?
Whilst we are on the subject what exactly does this software do that the firewall does not? Apart from some nice looking icons there doesn't appear to be anything different.
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Hdo rated on 15 Dec 2010