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Little Snitch

Little Snitch

Informs you when an app tries to establish an outgoing Internet connection.

Version:  2.2

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Excellent

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Contributed by: cruiser Sunday, June 20 2004 @ 02:35 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

G5/10.3.4 I have had NO problems (knock on wood) and I've efen been playing with the rules (breaking a long standing rule of my own of NOT playing with firewalls). I've found that if I eliminate a rule that I need, LS will ask if a connection should be allowed. If I say yes, then it is added. I can then edit the rule (in System Preferences) to make it perminate, or whatever. If I make a rule that says "Deny", then a window appears saying that the connection cannot be made (or something like that) and I can check the rule that applies to that application. I am now very confident that I have no Spyware. This is great for us paranoids. I've been omitting a few perminate rules on purpose just to have the applications ask for permission to log onto the internet - a power trip. I'll simply edit them to perminate when I get over my trip.   

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re: Excellent -

as i said below, i consider LS useless. i use firewalk instead. offers the same functionality as LS, plus a lot more for 35 bucks. much better value for money than LS.

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Monday, June 21 2004 @ 07:42 PM PDT


re: Excellent -

as i said below, i consider LS useless. i use firewalk instead. offers the same functionality as LS, plus a lot more for 35 bucks. much better value for money than LS.

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Monday, June 21 2004 @ 07:42 PM PDT