Hi, As I mentioned, I believe that the Firewalls present in most routers will do a more than adequate job for most users. Thus, turning on the MacOS Firewall as well is unnecessary.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 14, 2015, at 09:54, christopher hallsworth <challswor...@icloud.com> wrote: Hi all I do not use the firewall on the mac. Should I? Was informed that most of the "vulnerable" ports are blocked by default under OS X. > On 14 May 2015, at 12:27, Jim Gatteys <jgatt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi again! > Every time I load messages on my mac I keep getting ask if I want to allow or > deny message to access the net? I have firewall turned on and messages is > one of the apps that I have allowed access to the net. Any ideas? > Thanks, > Jim > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.