{"id":16955,"date":"2009-12-04T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=16955"},"modified":"2010-06-17T16:53:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T20:53:28","slug":"macos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/about\/security-resources\/host-based\/macos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mac OS Firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A firewall is a barrier to keep viruses, worms, and spyware away from your computer. With the use of filters, the firewall examines the information coming through your Internet connection. If any of the information is flagged by the filters as being dangerous to the computer, it is not allowed through. Firewalls are excellent for a first line of defense in protecting your computer from future infections.<\/p>\n<p>Your computer also has a built in firewall that just needs to be activated. To activate your firewall, you need to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open <strong>System            Preferences<\/strong> and click on <strong>Security. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Select the service you want to share. Firewall protection will be automatically turned on for that service. Click on <strong>Firewall<\/strong> to make sure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: In older versions of Mac OS X, the <strong>Firewall<\/strong> options are under <strong>Sharing<\/strong> rather than Security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A firewall is a barrier to keep viruses, worms, and spyware away from your computer. With the use of filters, the firewall examines the information coming through your Internet connection. If any of the information is flagged by the filters as being dangerous to the computer, it is not allowed through. Firewalls are excellent for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2620,"featured_media":0,"parent":7971,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16955"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35646,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16955\/revisions\/35646"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}