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NoobProof is a basic IPFW firewall configuration tool for Mac OS X 10.5-10.6-10.7. NoobProof main features:
- uses Mac OS X built-in IPFW firewall.
- No kernel modules, no extensions, no pain.
- decide who can connect to your mac's open services: allow or deny a single host, multiple hosts or subnets for every configured service
- deny unwanted connections to shared files, music, photos, printers
- easily add new custom services and rules
- limit inbound bandwidth for selected services or for all Internet traffic
- deny real-time network
What's New
Version 1.5:
- Fixed logs window bug in Mac OS X 10.6-10.7
- Changed licensing model to NLPL license (www.nolicense.org)
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
WaterRoof+6
Doorstop X+2 
NetBarrier X5+1 
Norton Firewal...+1 
DoorStop X Sec...+1 
VirusBarrier P...+1
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NoobProof is a basic IPFW firewall configuration tool for Mac OS X 10.5-10.6-10.7. NoobProof main features:
- uses Mac OS X built-in IPFW firewall.
- No kernel modules, no extensions, no pain.
- decide who can connect to your mac's open services: allow or deny a single host, multiple hosts or subnets for every configured service
- deny unwanted connections to shared files, music, photos, printers
- easily add new custom services and rules
- limit inbound bandwidth for selected services or for all Internet traffic
- deny real-time network applications like on-line gaming or audio/video chatting
- block untrusted hosts with outgoing/incoming connections black lists
- see firewall logs in window, in terminal or in real-time
- see live static and dynamic ipfw rules
- supernoob mode one-click firewall setup (stateful firewall)
- wizard configurator is the easiest way to configure the Mac OS X firewall. It starts the first time you launch NoobProof
- friendly default configuration, very simple graphic interface
- injectors: deploy easily your firewall setup across a large number of macs; do backups or libraries of useful firewall configurations. Injector works on Mac OS X 10.4-10.7
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dumbledore reviewed on 09 Sep 2011
I emailed the author with my finding and hack solution back in May last year (2010), but I see that no new version has been released since then. Since this program is free and open source, let me share what I did to fix the little problem:
(1) download the source code and unzip everything,
(2) locate the file 'noobproof.applescript' inside the folder 'NoobProof_build_214', and open it (preferably with AppleScript Editor but a text editor will do),
(3) modify line #1349 from 'else if osxversion is equal to "10.5" then' to 'else if osxversion is greater than or equal to "10.5" then',
(4) Recompile (by opening the file 'NoobProof.xcodeproj' inside the folder 'NoobProof_build_214' with Xcode and selecting the menu command 'Build')
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iGreg reviewed on 12 Apr 2009
I found the options available convoluted with differing instructions depending on whether the firewall was on or not etc.
When I uninstalled it I followed the instructions in the order given and hope that in fact it is gone.
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In both version 4 and 5 Intego never never fixed the problem. I would imagine 6.0 will have the same bug.
Firewalls under no circumstances should cause kernel panics ever!!
Doorstop X is the best in my opinion, simple to use and implement and does what it says on the Tin!
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I'll release a new version asap, with new features and some bug fixes. I'll set "System internal services" default rule to 'allow'.
If you look deeply into noobproof, you'll find many other bugs, that's for sure! You know, I'm alone in developing and testing this software, and it's really difficult to test everything. For this reason your help is really appreciated. Thank you.
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Can you do a brief comparison of WaterRoof and NoobProof? Is it simply that the latter is a simplified version of the former?
hany
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