Hi Tim, As your question has nothing to do with the Lynn's Subject: just certain iphone sms restore, I've changed the Subject to Re: Little Snitch.
Little Snitch is not a 'bad' program, a lot of people use and recommend Little Snitch... but... Unless you monitor him vigorously, he can create more problems than he does any good! Little Snitch doesn't stop "Incoming Connections" only "Outgoing Network Connections". Extract taken from Little Snitch website: "Little Snitch only handles outgoing network connections on all network interfaces (AirPort, PPP, network cards, etc.)." It intercepts and defers an application’s network access until you decide to allow or deny the request, or it handles the request automatically based on an already defined rule. Little Snitch does not intercept incoming connections. They can be blocked with the Built-In firewall of Mac OS X. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve corrected problems on Mac computers that have been caused by having Little Snitch installed, I would be a rich lady ;-) Usually my first question to a client who is having "Network problems" is “Do you have Little Snitch installed”! Why do you feel you need Little Snitch? If you feel you need Little Snitch, my advice to you would be; make sure you know how to configure and use Little Snitch and 'How To Uninstall' Little Snitch if you find you need/want to. Uninstall Little Snitch: "Open the Little Snitch Installer application and click the Uninstall button. If you don’t have the Installer available on your computer anymore, you can re-download it from their Download Page." You still need to check & manually delete these files after running the uninstaller (unless the new uninstaller version has improved greatly and now deletes the associated files). While I believe the list to be complete, if anyone discovers other files I have missed, please post a follow up with the path to the file. Note that lines ending with a '/' represent directories that contain one or more files which are only part of Little Snitch. Note further that the '~' symbol represents your home directory. Finally, note that the directory marked with '(*)' contains the Little Snitch registration files, including a hidden file (.lsd) that will not show up in a Finder window. Removing this directory will, however, remove all traces of your registration from your system. ~/Library/Application Support/Little Snitch/ ~/Library/Logs/Little Snitch Installer.log ~/Library/Logs/Little Snitch Network Monitor.log ~/Library/Logs/Little Snitch UIAgent.log ~/Library/Preferences/at.obdev.LittleSnitchConfiguration.plist ~/Library/Preferences/at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist ~/Library/Preferences/at.obdev/LSD.plist /Applications/Little Snitch Configuration.app/ /Library/Application Support/Objective Development/Little Snitch/ (*) /Library/LaunchAgents/at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist /Library/LaunchAgents/at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist /Library/Little Snitch/Little Snitch Network Monitor.app/ /Library/Little Snitch/Little Snitch UIAgent.app/ /Library/Little Snitch/lsd /Library/Logs/LittleSnitchDaemon.log /System/Library/Extensions/LittleSnitch.kext/ After removing the above directories, you will need to reboot your machine in order to boot a new kernel that does not contain the Little Snitch kernel extension. That is, unless you know how to use the kextunload(8) command from the command line to do it manually. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 09/01/2013, at 11:32 AM, Kim Maher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ronni > > I need some help is "Little Snitch" OK to run on my Mac. I have been away, I > was thankful when I return to read about "Mackeeper" and I removed it. > > Thank you in advance, > > Kim > > Sent from my Mac Book Air > > [email protected] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130109/9f68bf8d/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
