MS Office on the Mac Security Check
Sat Aug 13 16:31:20 2005 EDT (-0400 GMT)Concerned that MS Office is sending information out about your use of Office to other users on your local network? It’s your computer, block it!
You can stop the server it sets up on port 2222 by adding a deny command to your firewall manually. Unfortunately this will stop your System Preferences Firewall options from working, as once it sees entries it didn’t make it will alert you that it can no longer configure your firewall. You may have to read up on the ipfw command in the future.
I’ve given you the information, it’s up to you to decide how you’ll use it.
From your terminal run this command:
sudo ipfw add deny udp from any to any 2222 via en0
if you are concerned about an extra WiFi connection replace en0 with en1.
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