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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If Firewall is enabled, third-party applications for scanning web traffic and controlling access to web resources installed on your Mac may not work properly. |
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.
To enable system extensions
For macOS 12.0 and earlier versions
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.1.Go to Apple menu 2.Click System Settings. 3.Click Privacy & Security. 4.In this section, scroll down to the phrase Some system software requires your attention before it can be used and click Details…. 5.To unlock settings, enter your user name and password in the pop-up. 6.Turn on the toggles next to Dr.Web components and click ОК. |
For macOS 15.0 and later versions
1.Go to Apple menu 2.Click System Settings. 3.Go to General and select Login Items & Extensions. 4.In the Extensions subsection scroll down to Endpoint Security Extensions and click 5.Turn on the Dr.Web Spider toggle and click ОК. 6.In the Extensions subsection scroll down to Network Extensions and click 7.Turn on the Dr.Web Firewall toggle and click ОК. |
next to it.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.