WTF? "Other firewall software is running...."

torifiletorifile
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
What's that about? I know for a fact I don't have other firewall software on my computer, but the sharing pref pane always tells me that. Anyone know what that's about?



I'm not too concerned about it because I don't need to setup a firewall, being behind an ABS most of the time, but I'm really confused. Anybody know of a way to track this down? TIA.

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Did you ever use BrickHouse some time ago? If so, even if you don't still have the BrickHouse software on the computer any longer, you probably still installed a startup script for it to activate each time automatically. Remove that and restart the computer (or tell BrickHouse to "clear all filters") and it should be fine.



    The same applies for Norton's firewall or any other firewall software you may have used in the past.



    [ 03-04-2003: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
  • Reply 2 of 4
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    [quote]Originally posted by Brad:

    <strong>Did you ever use BrickHouse some time ago? If so, even if you don't still have the BrickHouse software on the computer any longer, you probably still installed a startup script for it to activate each time automatically. Remove that and restart the computer (or tell BrickHouse to "clear all filters") and it should be fine.



    The same applies for Norton's firewall or any other firewall software you may have used in the past.



    [ 03-04-2003: Message edited by: Brad ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I haven't ever used any other firewall software on this computer. It's my new powerbook. :confused: Could it be that the hardware firewall at my office has something to do with this? I know that dook has a firewall setup (because I can't use carracho, etc) on campus, so maybe that's it? I dunno, I'll give it a restart and see if that fixes it. So long, 15 days of uptime...
  • Reply 3 of 4
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    How strange. OSX's firewall shouldn't be affected by an external campus firewall like that.



    Hrmmm. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />



    Let us know if the restart cures it.
  • Reply 4 of 4
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Well, the restart cured it. Weird.
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