Firewall Settings

[savoym]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

Every morning I start Entourage and a dialogue box comes up asking me of I want to allow incoming connections or something to that effect, and that I can set this in the Firewall settings in Security preference. In the Firewall tab under Security I have all the Mac Office 2008 applications to allow incoming connections, but I still get this dialogue box coming up each time I open Entourage. I also get this dialogue message sometimes for Word and Excel. My question is how do I get this dialogue box to quit coming up?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Every morning I start Entourage and a dialogue box comes up asking me of
I want to allow incoming connections or something to that effect, and
that I can set this in the Firewall settings in Security preference.

That's a (fairly annoying) bug in the System.
Open the firewall in the system preferences and remove Entourage from
the list. Add it back manually and hopefully the problem will be gone,

Corentin

 

[savoym]

Corentin,

Thank you so much. I rebooted my system and opened up Entourage and the dialogue box did not come up. WooHoo!!! You are correct that it is annoying. I hope MS will fix that in the next patch or next version.

Appreciate your time and help. Regards.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi,

Thank you so much. I rebooted my system and opened up Entourage and the
dialogue box did not come up. WooHoo!!! You are correct that it is
annoying. I hope MS will fix that in the next patch or next version.

Not MS... Apple in this case. That's a bug in the way the Firewall is
designed. I also have that on occasions for other applications (like
OmniWeb).
I also suspect that the Firewall doesn't like it when you update the
application. It doesn't recognise it anymore (which is OK), and fails to
update the "signature" when you ask to allow the application from then
on. Removing and re-adding the application to the list corrects the
(annoying) issue,

Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

This is actually a feature. The signture is created when you add the
application exception to the firewall.

Well sure, getting the warning the first time you launch the app after
updating is a feature indeed.
Getting the warning over and over again after each reboot even though
you've said to always allow after the update is a bug.
The "Always allow" doesn't seem to always be taken in consideration. It
doesn't stik and then the workaround is to remove the app from the list
and readd it (to let the system properly add the aoo with the new
checksum),



Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Ah I see. You should report this to Apple through their bug reporter
page.

Oh don't worry. It's been reported

Corentin