On 2011/12/30 16:15, dc so eloquently wrote:
After reading over one of the topics in this list I installed "Private Eye". What a mistake! Now I'm paranoid! There are scores of outgoing connections, including amazonaws.com. How do I disable or remove them? ClamAV shows the system is clean but there seems to be a lot of unauthorized activity going on.
The bigger concern probably isn't who you browser is contacting but instead rogue process's. If you see "Nefarious Application That Steals Your Identity" or some other app you don't recognize connecting to amazonaws or akama that is when you need to worry. Of course this requires becoming familiar with the names of normal system process' because at first they might seem to be unknown. In this regard Google is your friend, when I see a process that I haven't seen before, I look it up first and so far every time there have been other people asking about the same process's.
That's not to say that Safari can't be made to do bad things, but it's not very likely.
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