Arno, "Security will always rely heavily on the user", This goes without saying, of course. From what I have seen so far regarding LS is better than just a "good aid", I've been asking for this type of "outbound monitor" for years in the PC World and it just doesn't exist and I'm not a programmer so I had to live with bi-directional FW's.
I believe I was running Opera 8.02 when I 1st installed LS and gave Opera the permission required to access the net. I than upgraded Opera to 8.05 and LS did not see I had changed Opera's code...I think this is what got me started to think about Leak Test, a term we have in the PC world to test trojans and other baddies that change their name just to get by FW - blockers we have in place. Rod Moses --- Arno S Hautala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday, October 26, 2005, at 01:55PM, Rod > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I was wondering if Little Snitch will prevent > trojans > >from Masquerading as a "Standard" Programs that I > have > >allowed internet access? > > I'm pretty sure LS stores not just the name of the > application, but also a hash of the application. In > this way even upgrades to the application require > that they be re-authorized. Note that this is a > guess, I don't think I've seen this specifically > stated anywhere. > > Also note that this doesn't mean LS will notice if > an app has been replaced with a trojan. You > yourself will have to remember that you've already > authorized an app and it hasn't been upgraded since. > > LS is a good aid, but not ironclad. Security will > always rely heavily on the user. > > -- > -- > arno s hautala /-\ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > -- > _______________________________________________ > Littlesnitch-talk mailing list > Littlesnitch-talk@obdev.at > http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/littlesnitch-talk > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Littlesnitch-talk mailing list Littlesnitch-talk@obdev.at http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/littlesnitch-talk
