Firewall protects your Mac from unauthorized access and prevents leaks of important data. Firewall allows you to control application connections to the internet and data transfer via the network and block suspicious connections.
Firewall is automatically enabled after you install and activate the Dr.Web license. The monitor launches at system startup and operates constantly in the background.
Firewall controls all incoming and outgoing traffic and allows or blocks application access to network resources according to the selected operation mode and specific filtering rules.
Enabling and disabling Firewall
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Third-party applications for scanning web traffic and controlling access to web resources installed on your Mac may not work properly if Firewall is enabled. |
To pause or continue protection from network threats
1.On the Dashboard tab of the main window, choose Protection Components. 2.Enable or disable Firewall by using the toggle |
.Firewall doesn't work / System extension blocked
macOS 10.13 and later versions block kernel (system) extension loading. At that, Firewall doesn’t work, and you see a notification saying that the system extension was blocked. For protection from network threats to operate correctly, allow the loading of system software from Doctor Web Ltd.
1.Go to Apple menu 2.Click System Preferences. 3.Click Security & Privacy. 4.If preferences are unavailable, unlock them. To do that, click 5.Click Allow next to the message about blocking the Doctor Web Ltd. system software.
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at the bottom and enter your user name and password.Firewall blocked internet access
If an application (for example, a browser) can’t get access to the internet, create a new rule in the Firewall preferences.