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DESCRIPTION

GlowWorm FW Lite is a rule-based network security and monitoring application built on plugin-accessible framework.

Rules can be defined on the basis of a set of connection criteria include the addresses, ports, relevant endpoint and protocol. Additionally, rules can be restricted to a particular set of users, groups or applications, and the lifetime of a rule can be limited by the lifetime of that application or until the machine reboots.

Relative Network Names allow one to specify symbolic endpoint address like localhost, localnet or remotenet instead of having to "hard code" an ip subnet address.

Rule Actions can alert you using a user-customizable dialog message (based on an sprintf-like format so that you can choose what information to include), if a particular rule matches.

Support for incoming and listener connections provides a more precise means of controlling network traffic than offered by the Mac OS X Firewall.

Drag-and-drop rule re-ordering makes prioritizing rules an intuitive and easy process.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5.3b4:
  • Added Growl notification support to Rule Actions.
  • Added the application name to the logging system and the rule editor logging preview table.
  • Fixed a rule-save issue apparent at GlowWorm shutdown.
  • Fixed an issue in GlowWorm.app where a disable message was not being received.
  • Fixed a kernel panic issue having to do with TrueDNS packet parsing.
  • Fixed an issue where the data being sent to the StreamMonitor was sometimes truncated.
  • Added support for clearing the buffer on a per-socket basis in the StreamMonitor plugin.
  • Added support for per-socket buffer size limits (in megabytes) in the StreamMonitor plugin.
  • Added support for Packets registration codes, which are now for sale.
  • Fixed a kernel panic issue having to do with udp4 data send/recv.
  • Fixed a possible null-pointer dereference in the kernel extension in bignum_cmp().
  • Fixed a dead-lock issue that could occur between glowwormd and the kernel extension.
  • Removed editable flag on the Registration and Plugin tables in GlowWorm.app preferences.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Symphonic Systems, Inc.
Downloads:9,896
  - Version d/l:2,857
Utilities:Security
License:Free
Date:09 Mar 2007
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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    GlowWorm FW Lite User Reviews (25 posts)Write A Review
    Jul 22 2008

    IVANOVITCH  Also froze my Mac, and created havoc. WARNING: don't use this software with OS X10.5....  (Version 1.5.3b4)

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    Jun 22 2008

    R33C3  Terrible program. Froze my apps, had to hard boot my mac. And I had to reinstall the systm files.

    ** Thank you time machine **  (Version 1.5.3b4)

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    Dec 4 2007

    MOK  Careful! This program hosed my Leopard mac. After installing and launching, immediately a few of my apps stopped responding and went into a ghost state in which they could not be force quit under any means (I've never seen anything like it before). A soft logout or restart stopped working too, so I did a hard reboot and my mac would not make it past a blue screen. Tried over and over again, couldn't even get to the login screen. I rebooted from my OSX DVD, opened the Terminal.app and looked for recently modified files in the /System directory. Guess what: the newest file was a GlowWorm kernel extension. I moved this out of the way (the only change I did), rebooted and my system now works perfectly again. This is program super flaky, I have NEVER had a program prevent my mac from booting before.

    I realize that it's hard to maintain free software, but when it comes to kernel extensions, my tolerance for flakiness is very low. Use caution.  (Version 1.5.3b4)

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    Oct 30 2007

    JAIME_SF  Don't use 4.53 beta 2 under Leopard. Installed under leopard. system began to hang on startup. I had to boot into safemode and uninstall with their uninstaller found in /Libarary/Application Support.  (Version 1.5.3b4)

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