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Does the android platform have any firewall application?

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See also: What's the Best Security/Anti-Virus app android.stackexchange.com/questions/277/… – Michael Paulukonis Sep 14 '10 at 14:56

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I'm pretty sure that Android includes iptables, which is the standard firewall for any Linux. What I have no information about is whether iptables is compiled into the kernel used on all phones, but you might get more information out of this thread in the xda-developers forum.

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DroidWall is pretty good, but it requires root, of course.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.googlecode.droidwall

It allows you to control on an app-by-app basis which applications can access the network, and has separate permissions for Wifi and 3g.

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