[moneydance] Ongoing network security popup in Mac OS X

[Brian Juergensmeyer]

Hi, All,

On 8/30/08 9:55 PM, "sreilly" <sreilly at seanreilly.com> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> 
> The popup you are seeing is from something on your computer, not
> Moneydance, but I'm not sure why it would be displayed as Moneydance
> doesn't attempt to listen to any incoming network connections.  Is it
> possible that you have some third party extension installed that is
> opening an incoming network connection?  If not, I would be concerned
> that something nefarious is happening on your computer.  Do you get
> the same problem if you download a fresh copy of Moneydance from
> http://moneydance.com/mac?

//Snip


Crisis averted.  I did some digging around and, since Sean's done such a
good job with Moneydance's UI, I occasionally forget it is a Java app.

In a fit of security consciousness here a while back, I went in and tweaked
my firewall settings in the Security tab of System preferences.  I'd set up
Moneydance to allow all incoming connections, but I'd tweaked JAVA to block
all incoming connections.  Once I allowed Java to accept incoming
connections, all was right with the world.

I think I even did my security tweaking coincidentally with my last
Moneydance upgrade. :)

So, just something for the Mac folks to thing about if it ever happens
again.

Thanks,

Brian

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