About six months. Most of the things it picks up are embedded links in
web pages and ordinary apps 'phoning home'. Mostly the latter is
checking for updates, but I am not always sure. So unless I understand
what is going on, I kill it.
My paranoia increased after I caught some script kiddie running a
password guesser on the root account of my externally connected box at
home. (Hello out there, MacOS X has all logins to root disabled by
default!) I also had a Linux web server hacked a couple of years back
by someone who was definitely not an amateur. That caused much
aggravation.
Bill
On 14/09/2004, at 9:14 AM, Rich Cook wrote:
Very cool. May I ask, how long have you been running this software,
and what has it detected for you? Too much to tell? Nothing? Thanks
On Sep 13, 2004, at 4:04 PM, Bill Northcott wrote:
However, if like me you suffer from paranoia, just get a copy of
Little Snitch from the good guys at http://www.obdev.at. It puts up a dialogue whenever software on your
computer tries to access a DNS address or IP number that you have not
specifically typed in.
Bill Northcott
From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: spyware on OS X
To: Ebrahim Mayat <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII
Actually, no, it was not due to spyware on OS X. There are currently
no
spyware removal programs for OS X, as there is no known malicious
spyware for OS X.[1]
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