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I was hoping the firewall feature would have been address with the new update but it wasn't. I like how it was implemented in tiger to have more control on ports and such. With programs like little snitch and one from subrosa (can't remember the name), is there a program that give better control of ports and watching what programs phone home? I stink at using terminal but if there are settings that can be accomplished using terminal then I'll learn it real quick. Otherwise, what do you recommend as a real good program that gives better control? I don't trust the firewall settings in leopard at all.
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You mentioned Little Snitch. It does a good job AFAIK. Are you looking for some other functionality?
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I was reading the forum on little snitch and I guess little snitch isn't catching all programs phoning home. I am looking for something that catches all programs doing this. The software from subrosasoft called filedefense looks good but I want to research it a bit more before I buy it. Anyone ever use this?
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Last edited by bearcatrp; Feb 12, 2008 at 10:13 PM.
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Originally Posted by bearcatrp 
I was reading the forum on little snitch and I guess little snitch isn't catching all programs phoning home. I am looking for something that catches all programs doing this. The software from subrosasoft called filedefense looks good but I want to research it a bit more before I buy it. Anyone ever use this?
I have been using Little Snitch for a long time, but never noticed something that Little Snitch would be missing.
What's your source saying LS is missing some items phoning home ?
What kind of "phoning home" will go around LS ?
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Also, just for clarification (sorry to nitpick): you don't "learn Terminal". Terminal is an extremely simple application, there is not much to learn there. What you meant was learn the Unix environment.
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Originally Posted by bearcatrp
I'm not sure how these different ways of circumventing LS exactly work.
One of them, scripting a web browser, is a pretty low level method though. And, of course, LS can hardly catch that. The scriptability of progams is an inherent security risk.
The "Imagewell" phone home software mentioned in the link doesn't really seem to phone home. See here:
MacUpdate: ImageWell Reviews
So, LS is NOT circumvented.
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^ nice keywords rekha, you're a very bad spammer.
<And a deleted spammer too! Glenn>
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