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Product Description:
Rixstep announce a new standalone product for OS X that lets users track file system activities, finding not just what files have been modified but also what files have been accessed, and even where 'untrusted' software tries to cover its tracks. There are a few other products available that attempt heuristically to determine where data remnants are left in your system by installed software, and others that use event notification systems available with some releases of OS X, but Tracker's the only utility that gets at everything, regardless of your OS version.
Apple have in the past, in the wake of security bulletins and news of exploits against their platform, advised users to 'never run unknown and untrusted software'. Which is an impossibility. Until you try a new program, there's no way you can know if you can trust it. And without Tracker, you're never going to know that anyway. At best you'll be able to guess, and this shouldn't be a guessing game.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- OS X 10.2 or higher
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Download Tracker Version 1.0 (File Size: 39k)
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| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (4.0) |
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Re: Dear young Kugo (aka Rixstep) - Version: 1.0, 7/23/2006 11:43AM PST
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aweinand
Worth $25 ? - Version: 1.0, 7/22/2006 03:15PM PST
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aweinand
This is basically a rather limited UI for the shell commands
"find / -newer <some_file> -print" and "ls"
Yes, it's easier to use than the CLI version, but I doubt whether it's worth $25.
"find / -newer <some_file> -print" and "ls"
Yes, it's easier to use than the CLI version, but I doubt whether it's worth $25.
Runs on all systems - Version: 1.0, 7/22/2006 01:27AM PST
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Kugo
I don't like the fsevents idea. Apple did this for Spotlight. If you want to hook into that, you have to do it as root. Bad idea. Also, the queue can get clogged, there's only one buffer for all clients, and if anything else happens on the system - expanding VM for example - then the system sends a different event instead, namely that it's currently unable to send events [sic]. I figure at least 50% of those capable of upgrading to Tiger have not done so for well documented reasons, and at any rate this way of doing things works better, faster, more reliably, and it works on all platforms.
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- Runs on all systems
Judge yourself about the "garbage"...
- add a filter to hide any readonly accesses
Rixstep: Not sure what you mean here.
- add a text filter like the one in Apple's log viewer
Rixstep: Not at all familiar with this.
- as an option, don't do an exhaustive scan of the filesystem but instead 'observe' file system changes like "fseventer"
Rixstep: Yes, but then the application will _only_ work under 10.4. No matter that you can turn the option off, the executable won't link with the frameworks and methods because they don't exist.
Considering perhaps 50% of all users have not upgraded to Tiger, that's really cutting them short.