on 2012-04-28 13:07 Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote
I thought I had always heard good things about Little Snitch, whose purpose I believe is to monitor all incoming and outgoing network connections.
only outgoing
It was on sale last week, so I bought a license. Today I uninstalled it because it was driving me crazy. Anytime I tried to do anything, I would get a panel popping up that asked whether I wanted to deny or allow a connection, either now or always. Often I would get 10-20 panels in sequence. It was difficult to get anything done. In fact, it seemed to virtually prevent me from using Screen Sharing because the popups never stopped and I could never connect to the other machine. I thought that after I said "always allow" to enough popups that their frequency would decrease after a few days, but it did not seem to work that way.
i have used Little Snitch for years; you do have to train it; i would not recommend using Little Snitch unless you are prepared to invest a little time and you have (or want to have) some basic networking knowledge; otherwise you are just going to reflexively dismiss the dialogs and not notice when something suspicious wants to phone home
clicking "forever" is not the only option in the dialog — if you are allowing an app like Safari access to only one server at a time, you'll have a long road ahead of you
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