Hands Off! - Monitor your computer. Protect your privacy

Hands Off! is an personal firewall for Mac OS X which monitors network access (inbound and outbound) as well as file access. It helps you to monitor normally unnoticeable  access of applications to your network and disks and allow/disallow those based on your rules.

Let's be honest the build in firewall in Mac OS X is not very useful and nowadays applications send all kind of information stored on your computer to whoever they want. Using Hands Off!, you can monitor and control Internet connections from all applications as to expose hidden connections and prevent them from sending data without your consent.

The installation is very easy just drop Hands Off! to your applications folder and run it, without rebooting you are instantly protected.

Applications that try to access network connections or files will prompt a dialog where you can decide to either block or allow those. Those decisions get saved as rules which you can modify at any time.

You can also create rules to allow access to specific domains/ip adresses or files for all applications without getting asked when a application access tries to access those.

Unlike it competitors Hands Off! can even block DNS resolve queries.

The Network monitor. which gives you a quick look at all traffic on your box, is another neat feature.

Tl;dr? Here is a brief overview of the features:

Protect your privacy
Keep an eye on Internet connections from all applications as to expose the hidden connections. 

Prevent them from sending data without your consent, hence avoiding information leakage. 

Safely run untrusted applications
Manage disk access so dubious programs cannot obtain confidential information. Avert permanent changes or data loss by prohibitting disk writing. Prevent viruses and other malware infiltration.

Designate friendly applications
Specify which applications should be trusted with specific operations. The flexible configuration enables the smooth running of your activities while maintaining top security.

You can test Hands Off! in Demo mode or buy a License for $24,95

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