Little snitch and dashboardadvisoryd

I installed little snitch and i get this message that dahsboardadvisoryd wants to connect to www.apple.com.edgekey.net
so I want to know what is dashboardadvisoryd and should I allow it to connect forever

It checks to see if updates are available for your Dashboard widgets. If you think that's useful, allow it to connect when it wants.
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Does anyone know what is Little Snitch and is it safe to use

I had an email from a friend who mentioned about Little Snitch to prevent keyloggers, is it safe to use. If it is not I can relay this information back to my friend
who was just about to install this software. Prevention is better than cure
Thanks
rachealfromva

rachealfromva wrote:
I had an email from a friend who mentioned about Little Snitch to prevent keyloggers
The way to prevent keyloggers is to not allow anybody else admin access to your Mac, since that's about the only way a keylogger could get there.
What Little Snitch will do is prevent a keylogger that is installed on your Mac from communicating to the outside world over your network.
I've been using it since v1.0, I believe and it's very safe as long as you know what you are doing. I would also mention that it's a bit of a PITA to initially set up as it will ask your permission for almost every appication and process that needs to communicate over your network. You will find some processes that you aren't aware of that must be given permission or they won't work. You will probalby need to Google some of them to find out exactly what they are before making a decision.

Little snitch and firefox trying to go out when not asked

On my minimac 10.4.11 I am running little snitch. It often tells me :
"firefox-bin wants to connect to addons.acelb.sj.mozilla.com on TCP port 443 (https)"
the confusion I am having is that firefox is not open, at least not on my user account. There are 3 others and sometimes they are still open.
I looked at my preferences , account and the login items does not list Firefox.
Anybody know if I should be concerned with this? I usually just tell it no for now.
My main browser is Safari but sometimes firefox is necessary so I haven't checked the never box
Thanks
Barry

That is normal if running in any account, it wants to check if any addons have needed updates. Nothing to worry about really, but you can Deny it Forever, then Change the setting easily, or check for updates at their site.

Little Snitch and my mistake, maybe...

i love little snitch. but i wonder if i have accidently told it to stop apple (system) doing something it should.
iget this message in the console every 10 seconds, and i think it's affecting my macbook pro
Dec 11 22:43:34 Macintosh-10 com.apple.launchd[1] (at.obdev.littlesnitchd[1164]): Exited with exit code: 1

Gerry, I'm pretty sure it's a per user basis. I have tried it out and it's monitored my traffic but not my sister's traffic although she's using the same airport express as I am. She'd need to install it herself to see results.

Little Snitch and Leopard

Apparently, Leopard's firewall looks at outbound traffic as well as inbound. Is anyone using Little Snitch with Leopard? Any problems?
Thanks

sdevan wrote:
Check this out: Leopard's firewall, by contrast, allows (or denies) access to specific applications on your Mac. And this works in both directions — not only does it filter out incoming traffic, but when a Mac application tries to access the network for the first time, Leopard asks you if it should be given access. This stops "phone-home" type programs in their tracks.
http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/firstlook.html
This article is incorrect. The firewall deals only with incoming connections.

Little Snitch and Pro Book 'gift'

I was gifted a reconditioned, like new by all appearances, pro book OS X.7
The device works very well, impressive speed etc. Only one time start up was frozen and I maneuvered by it with a Pram reset on start up. This happened the very first time I restarted it and I never gave it any thought since it cleared right up.
Now here's my question.
I am demoing LS. I note that in the mDNSR section, a local iphone is making a connection, I assume, with my laptop.
This iphone is owned by the gift giver.
What does this mean?
I do no syncing, and I never will own a cellphone, ever.
My thoughts are that the iphone is simply showing up because airport is being contacted by the iphone user. Not necessarily is the iphone talking to my pro book, or is it? I cannot fathom any reason for an iphone to be popping up on my LS display. It is almost always popping up when the iphone user/gift giver is nearing my bunker, home, etc.
Help, please. 2 days of my life trying to sort this out. This is my first apple community post. I dread the answer but must have one.

I thank you for your time.
I am a noob. This is my only computer, no ipads etc. I just killed my 10 year old TV shaped apple, saving the plastic logo as Steve Jobs died, and affixed it to my grinder, on the lid.... I was having to prod the guts with a drumstick to start it, and one time I felt current crawl through the wood. In those days, I did suspect foul play, spyware, but the expired browser, 2 years gone, was only working because someone allowed it to work. I figured it was so old that no one would bother doing anything tricky, and I wouldn't have cared if the whole world did watch what I did or looked upon, unless, oddly, that it was the same person that gifted me the macbook. That would be very disconcerting. But I digress.
Snitch has never once asked if I want to allow or disallow anything. Mind you, it is a free demo.
I hardly understand code. I did remove two rules of the 54 (unallow mobileme) and saw the same iphone flash on for just a couple of moments in the LS mDNSR column. With 'allow mobileme', the iphone is there for many minutes at a time.
My problem is a bit wider than I worded it. I am suspecting I was given a loaded computer for monitoring purposes, but I am an adult, and not employed by the person who gave me the mac book.
In getting a possible answer to my initial query, I can start to figure out the extent of the real issue here. In other words, it may be hardwired. It may have undectectable software on it. As we know, spyware is commonplace because ~ well, just look at how it's advertised. Cheating spouses, *****, etc....
I am trying to see why xxx's iphone routinely shows up. Usually the colors are green in the two bar graphics, but I thought I saw red as well. In the apple 'activity monitor', red means outgoing, green means incoming. I am assuming the same code holds true for LS.

OS X Kernel and Little Snitch

Hi All
Just bought Little Snitch and find that Mac OS x kernel has intermittent connections. What is this about and should i be allowing it?

Hi, most likely, but have you checked the several Preferences that might use Internet, like...
Network Time?
Software Update?
etc., etc., etc.?
Oh, and Dashboard calls home too still I think.

Os x firewall and little snitch firewall running at same time , can they collide or lead to system crash ?

os x firewall is very good , but it does not manage outgoing connections !
if running the little snitch and the built in firewall at the same time , can i ensure security without system crash (os x yosemite ) ????
thanks

I normally advise against Little Snitch: it delves very deep in the OS core so it does not add to security and can more easily lead to security issues than without it.
You must be a power user with special interests to use such a software.
Lex

Apple remote desktop can click little snitch

I have set up apple remote desktop over the net and I am trying to admin the computer but when I am trying to run a program, I can not control little snitch firewall and click to let the program connect to the internet. why cant apple remote desktop click the settings in little snitch that pop up when an app wants to connect to the internet? I thought we were suppose to have total control?

I have observed the same problem with Little Snitch on the client Mac. Everything else on the client is responsive except the LS dialog box. To get around this, I have opened System Preferences -> Little Snitch and turned it off on the client. You just have to remember to turn it back on when your done.
It's not a solution, just a workaround...

Little Snitch sends outgoing requests with Airport off

Noob, just downloaded Little Snitch on MBP, getting familiar with background processes and shell scripts. Let x = variables.
LS is showing my mDNSResponder sending out a 225.etc request after I turn Airport off. No other machines on network are runing.
When I DLed Little Snitch and began running it, neither configd nor SystemUIServer were on the LS register. After restart, both showed up and have been sitting contentedly.
When Airport is on, Finder via nmblookup is sending a request to [x].255 about every minute that I have Safari open. When I turn Airport off, then back on, and I'm running LS, Safari to verisign connection shows up and configd connection shows up at ff[x:xx].
My concerns: Former employer is after my intellectual property. I had MBP connected on a daily basis to WiFi and certain sharing elements on with firewall off (stupid, I know, but I didn't know nad hadn't thought about it, and co. in question was pretty technologically dinosauric). Connected to same network by ethernet occasionally, and installed by disk a Windows partition and Open Office by disk given by employers' IT staff.
What's the possibility that a keystroke logger was put on my machine by an Admin of network I connected to, and is there any way to detect and disable said keylogger? Also, is there any way--outside of reverse-lookup, SPAM blacklisting sites--to check destinations of remote connections my comp might be making to an external server?

FWIW, mDNSResponder is the process responsible for [Bonjour|http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/faq.html], Apple's name for its implementation of the popular zero-configuration networking technology. (That's what allows your Mac to discover & use network printers, local servers, etc.) And as mentioned [here|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3789], it is also used in Snow Leopard for unicast DNS resolution; without it, that OS cannot resolve hostnames like www.apple.com.
Likewise, [nmblookup|http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Referen ce/ManPages/man1/nmblookup.1.html] is the process that supports the OS X implementation of [Samba|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software)], which allows file & printer sharing between Windows & UNIX type OS's.
[configd|http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ ManPages/man8/configd.8.html] is an essential process that among many other things supplies the dynamic network port configurations that support the above & many other network processes.
So it is perfectly normal for these processes to periodically generate outbound network activity & by itself that does not mean a key logger is installed in your system.

Little Snitch Problems / Trail software Problems

Hello all, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question but it's the best I could find.
I recently downloaded two trial softwares. Little Snitch, and AstoundStereo, both from the Apple site. I decided against using both of them and deleted them before the trail ran out. Problem is, I'm still receiving annoying alerts from both programs, even though no trace of them (that I can see) remains on my computer.
Little Snitch will pop up and tell me my 3 hour trial has expired (it expired a few weeks ago) and AstoundStereo is still counting down the days left in its trial, despite both these applications being uninstalled.
Anybody know how I can fix this problem?
Any help greatly appreciated thank you

Hi
AstoundStereo - per the developer, run the uninstall program located in the AstoundStereo Expander folder, which is within the Applications folder. If you deleted that folder, download another copy of the software and open the installer. Either you'll be able to uninstall it from there, or you'll need to install the app. again so you can uninstall it.
Little Snitch - uninstall directions here.

Just installed update10.6.8 on my imac restarted and opened safari i have little snitch, it said xdefender wants to connect with apple, i let it. but after think has a malware been installed and update rooted it out? kindly advise

ust installed update10.6.8 on my imac restarted and opened safari i have little snitch, it said xdefender wants to connect with apple, i let it. but after i thought has a malware been installed and os update rooted it out? kindly advise

i have this sorted, a misunderstanding it was not xdefender trying to connect with apple it was XProtect Updater from apple.
jcher

I Downloaded the Little Snitch Trial, and I Want To Get Rid Of It. How?

so I have the Little Snitch trial. (an app that shows your network usage and stuff) There is no way I can quite it or stop it or delete it or anything
ZERO search results come up when i search little snitch in finder
it is not in the preferences of my mac.
I just want to get rid of it! it sits in my menu bar, and when i click it it displays the following..
Little Snitch Network Filter Off
Start New Filter
thats it...

The application has the uninstaller built into it, so if that item has
been dragged into Trash without running the uninstaller to get
the other parts removed correctly, you would have to download
the app again to get that uninstaller...
• Little Snitch 1 - Documentation
You may want to store the Little Snitch installer application in your
"Applications" folder or any other location. You need it if you want to uninstall ...
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/getting-started.html -
• Little Snitch - Frequently Asked Questions
Open the Little Snitch Installer application and click the Uninstall button.
If you don't have the Installer available on your computer anymore, ...
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/faq.html -
• Little Snitch 2 - home page index:
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
{This item gets installed as a system preference modifier so the
uninstaller is required to remove the parts you can't see. Since
Little Snitch has/had earlier versions, some of the documentation
may vary online from that which accompanied a later version.
A simple search of their product site or the application's Help in
the Finder menu should provide some insights on this.}
There also is another app called AppZapper which can help remove
the parts of an application from other places than the Application folder.
• AppZapper - an uninstaller: http://www.appzapper.com/
Good luck & happy computing!
edited.

Planetlab and little snitch.

So I run little snitch to keep an eye on my network traffic. Since installing Leopard I get messages like this:
+The application "kernel_task" wants to connect to planetlab-2.EECS.CWRU.Edu on TCP port 3125 (an13-an)+
Anyone familiar with this? I think it's a distributed computing thing, but could be anything. Any reason Leopard would want this?
I had a feeling my system was compromised a while back, so I worry about security...
Any ideas that can help (or just put my mind to rest) would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Neal
Message was edited by: Neal Bridgens

Hey Skip,
Thanks for the reply. I don't like to set any permanent rules with Little Snitch because the more you have, the slower things will get (this info comes from the developer).
I am more interested in finding out how to stop it as opposed to merely hiding it from my view. Thanks, again.

Mid 2011 Macbook Air won't boot after installing Little Snitch 3. Grey Screen.

Hi all
I think the answer is probably that my SSD is toast but here's the symptoms in case anyone else has experienced this.
I installed Adobe Lightroom and also got round to upgrading my Little Snitch license and finally putting it on my 11" Air (mid 2011, latest version of Lion) as I use the computer more often than my Pro. After restarting as LS requires I was met with the grey Apple logo screen with no spinning gear. I forced a shut down and started again, again the logo screen, no spinning gear. I tried booting in to safe mode and got only a grey screen, then I tried booting in to recovery mode and got the Apple Logo again. I also tried cmd + C and alt/option with an external DVD drive and Snow Leopard with no luck
Then I tried a SMC reset, after that I started up and only got the Logo again. I reset the PRAM and the main effect of that was to reset the system volume to max so now I can hear the POST chime but also since the PRAM reset I get only the grey screen and no further. I tried to boot from a USB Lion recovery but only the grey screen. I have also tried booting with cmd +S with no luck either. Internet recovery doesn't work either.
The keyboard seems to be completely unresponsive, the caps lock key doesn't light up at all and I've a feeling that it's either something as simple as a problem with the keyboard or the SSD is kaput. I think that Little Snitch is a coincidence as there's nothing like this anywhere on the web as far as I can tell with Google and there doesn't appear to be anything on these forums that quite matches, especially the part about not being able to use and alternative boot method.
Anyone out there got any ideas?
Cheers
John

Hi and thank you for your response.
The fans only kick in when the machine freezes.
I updated from Snow Leopard to Lion using the App Store. The install was successful and worked for about 30 mins then the unresponsive behavior started. Once I rebooted, I received the issue previously stated above (i.e., the trackpad and keyboard is unresponsive).
I've also tried booting using the Option key and choosing the Recovery Mode. Once in Recovery Mode the same crash happens (i.e., the trackpad and keyboard is unresponsive)

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