[muglo] Re: Little Snitch

On 29-Mar-09, at 11:55 AM, Terry Genereaux wrote:

> Is there anyone in the Muglo Group using the Little snitch app.?

I run the L'il Snitch app, but hardly to its capabilities. And as  
George stated, you become aware of all the 'phone home' attempts. But  
in the majority of cases, you cannot make an informed decision on  
whether it might be spyware or essential connection to accomplish your  
app's tasks.

L'il Snitch is a shareware application and one can continue using it  
in demo mode if you elect to reset it every 3 hours which is no big  
deal as it is about 3 keystrokes. I wrote to the company saying that I  
would be happy to purchase the license if they would have some  
explanation as to what their popup warnings really meant. Several  
reviews in VersionTracker have alluded to the same dilemma. They  
responded that they will pass on the feedback, but I'm not holding my  
breath.

Their popup box might say that:
"mngx wants to connect through port 84 or to 148.34.23.987" do you  
accept or deny? Most often the encrypted short form does not  
intuitively relate to the software that it is pointed to. If they  
would only hyperlink these coded messages, it would make the software  
valuable.

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