Firewall settings to allow incoming connections?

[kat.hayes]

Under my Firewall settings, under File Sharing (SMB) I see ARDAgent is set to allow incoming connections, as well as com.adguard,Adguard and Dropbox, and Skype.

I may have enabled these to allow incoming connections, though I do not remember doing so. I am not even sure what ARDAgent is for? Apple Remote Desktop? I do not use it on my MBP so I am not sure why it is installed? Is this something to be concerned with?

Thanks.

 

[KALLT]

ARDAgent is indeed part of the system and located in /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement. Have you perhaps enabled the option that automatically allows certain applications from receiving incoming connections?

 

[Justaguy48]

I assume Apple Remote Destop could be used for Apple Support to remote connect to your computer to run diagnostics, although I'm not for sure on that.

Either way you can deny the incoming connection if you feel that it should be denied. It won't cause a problem on your computer.