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CS3 on Mac - check your firewall

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Posted by Guy Tal on May 22, 2007 at 7:57 PM

Apparently the CS3 installer disables the OSX firewall and then forgets to turn it back on after the installation.

Go to your system preferences, select "Sharing", then "Firewall" and make sure to start it if it's turned off.

Guy
Posted by Alain Briot on May 22, 2007 at 8:34 PM
Good tip. Mine was off...
Posted by Kelly Rowe on May 23, 2007 at 8:05 AM
Thanks for the heads up.
Posted by Steve Foss on May 23, 2007 at 8:16 AM
I just re-installed OS 10.3.9, and my firewall was off. Thanks, Guy.
Posted by Guy Tal on May 23, 2007 at 10:32 AM
Here's the official advisory from Adobe.

Guy
Posted by Richard Shaffer on May 23, 2007 at 2:37 PM
I was emailed this info by a friend. I immediately clicked mine on and spent the next 3 hours trying to get my network functioning again. Is there a way to turn the FW back on without screwing up my network? Help please.
Posted by Guy Tal on May 23, 2007 at 2:45 PM
Richard, turning on the firewall should not interfere with your common network services unless someone manually changed the policy settings on it to block certain traffic.

Guy
Posted by Richard Shaffer on May 23, 2007 at 2:56 PM
It's a closed network just my desktop,laptop and dsl connection. I'm not sure why it messed up. It just did. I'll try it again and see what happens. After first writing down how everything is set up this time though.
Posted by Richard Shaffer on May 23, 2007 at 3:09 PM
It's a closed network just my desktop,laptop and dsl connection. I'm not sure why it messed up. It just did. I'll try it again and see what happens. After first writing down how everything is set up this time though.
Posted by Richard Shaffer on May 23, 2007 at 3:10 PM
Ok, tried it again and everything is fine this time. Weird............. Thanks!