Why It’s Hard To Create Firewall Rules for Google Update Traffic

Same IP addresses for Google Updates and Google Ads?

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In my last post on the topic of monitoring your home network and computers for problems I posted about some malicious traffic I noticed on my network and how I inspected my Mac for malware (or should I say, evidence of malware).

Investigating, Containing, and Removing Malware on a Mac

Related to that, I was having some problems connecting to Google’s update service. I thought I had allowed the domain through my firewall rules. Where he’s why that’s not going to work.

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