Something on your computer wants to downlad something else onto your computer, or send something from your computer to someplace else. Very risky unless you know exactly what has called curl and what it is trying to download. This is the kind of thing a trojan scout might do, to get the true trojan. Or maybe it's something sending off your address book and credit card numbers. Or maybe it's something entirely benign. Read the curl manpage, too.
One thing to try, when the LS alert comes up, is to (i) click on some LS button, like the "once" button (but don't click the "Allow Once" button yet), which I believe will keep the LS alert from timing out, (ii) move the LS window out of the way, (iii) start up Activity Monitor, showing processes threaded, to see what the curl process is a child of, ie what program wants to use curl. Re requesting good vs bad, be clear that what you're asking for is opinions from people who might not be trustworthy, so then what you have to do is try to get enough opinions for you to be able to make up your own mind. On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Alexander Arnett wrote: > Does anyone know who's behind "curl" and what it's about? Which > software is it associated with? Is it spyware, legit, something in > between or what? > > Littlesnitch comes back with a message saying "curl" wants to talk to: > > hs47.easymediasolutions.com > TCP port 80 http > > In a like vein, it's nice that Littlesnitch intercepts all these > phone home requests but how can we reference the good/legit requests > "white hat software" from the bad/nefarious "black hat software" > requests? . . . _______________________________________________ Littlesnitch-talk mailing list [email protected] http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/littlesnitch-talk
