It can't ask Sype for that information (and frankly, I'd be a bit worried if Skype just gave it up!) Otherwise, the firewall has no idea who is a friend/family, and who is an unknown intruder. If you only want to be alerted when somebody you don't know tries to connect to your Mac, then you need to enter all those IP addresses into your firewall.
There's no 'automatic allow of people I already have in my Skype list' because Skype doesn't tell anybody, including Norton Firewall, that information. Skype will then alert you in its own way when somebody is connecting to you.
Or you can choose to allow all connections to Skype. If you don't want the alerts, then you need to take the steps above.īasically, if you don't want the notifications when you know the person on the other side is 'safe', then you have to tell the firewall who is allowed, and who is not. The firewall is doing as it's been setup to do-alert you whenever somebody connects to your Mac.
