Aquisition is a p2p application for OSX, much like limewire or kazaa. While I had some free time this morning I decided to check out the security of my net connection.
OSX is by default way more secure than any Windows OS, but check the following:
Is your firewall on?
How well is it configured?
The first question is easy, but what about the second.
The OS X firewall is in, illogically if you ask me, System Preferences>Sharing.
Mine was on, but when I downloaded CarraFix it told me Aquisition was using bandwidth, and I hadn’t started it. It wasn’t auto starting, so either someone had connected to the Aquisition port or a lot of people were trying to connect.
I looked at blocking the port in the firewall, but it doesn’t give the option. After googling and reading my Mac OS X Bible I downloaded Brickhouse and blocked the 6346 TCP port. You may want to do the same. Remember to open the port next time you use Aquisition though.
The website link above is a general Mac security site, it didn’t help with this though, the Wiley book did.
