On Apr 28, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to be full of questions lately...
>
> I thought I had always heard good things about Little Snitch, whose purpose I
> believe is to monitor all incoming and outgoing network connections. 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.
>
> Was I doing something wrong or did I need to change certain settings? Do
> other Little Snitch users spend all their time dismissing popups or does this
> eventually calm down over time?
You have to pay attention to what you are allowing for the first couple of
weeks, otherwise you allow too little. When it complains about Safari, tell it
you will allow Safari to access port 80 and 443 on any machine forever. If you
just tell it you will accept THAT website on port 80 (the default), you'll be
answering dialog boxes forever. When it complains about telnet, same for port
21, and so on. After a week or so, it all settles down to exceptions.
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