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DESCRIPTION
Little Snitch... A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!

As soon as you’re connected to the Internet, applications can potentially send whatever information they want to wherever they want.

Sometimes they do this for good reason, on your explicit request. But often they don’t. Little Snitch allows you to intercept these unwanted connection attempts, and lets you decide how to proceed.

Little Snitch informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. You can then choose to allow or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. This reliably prevents private data from being sent out without your knowledge. Little Snitch runs inconspicuously in the background and it can also detect network related activity of viruses, trojans and other malware.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1.4:
  • Fixed an issue causing system freezes at login on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
  • Fixed a bug causing repeated connection alerts.
  • Fixed a bug related to rule matching precedence.
  • Minor usability improvements in Little Snitch Configuration.
  • Fixed an issue causing rules with relative process path to show up as “invalid”.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Developer:Objective Development
Downloads:447,153
  - Version d/l:6,923
Utilities:Security
License:Demo
Date:04 Jun 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$29.95
RATING
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Jun 5 2009
****.

BS0D  I really like Little Snitch. It is NOT INVASIVE at all, it runs discreetly in the background and it it very safe.

Much less invasive than NetBarrier X5 for example, which harrasses me with pop ups when I set it to max protection... and all it does is the same job as Little Snitch (except it has more options).  
(Version 2.1.4)

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Jun 4 2009

M2  There's a minor bug in version 2.1.3 (potentially not fixed in 2.1.4 either). If you are running Parallels, Little Snitch will block attempts made from Parallels to use the Mac network for the guest OS. However, there is no allow/deny dialogue for this so Parallels outputs an error about psl and quits.

Very annoying but if you turn off Little Snitch, Parallels will launch fine.  
(Version 2.1.4)

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Jun 4 2009

SHOTGUNWEDDINGS  No problem here with Little Snitch 2.1.3 or 2.1.4 and Parallels Desktop. Maybe your rules are corrupted.   
(Version 2.1.4)

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+1
Jun 4 2009

M2  Mmm... I thought that as well with 2.1.3 and reset all the settings to defaults and I still get the problem.  
(Version 2.1.4)

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Jun 4 2009
*****

FREDDO21  Hi guys, this is great! cool! this is the best update ever! ***** really cool! absolutely cool! soooo coool! keep up the good work! congratulations ***** fred  
(Version 2.1.4)

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May 22 2009

JOSEPH.MCKENNA1  I have ben trying to recover my license number from little snitch

Is there an easy way to do it?  
(Version 2.1.3)

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May 22 2009

MACUPDATE ADMIN  Check here: http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/faq.html  
(Version 2.1.3)

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May 22 2009

JOSEPH.MCKENNA1  Thanks bit it did not help.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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May 23 2009

JOSEPH.MCKENNA1  Thanks again  
(Version 2.1.3)

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May 21 2009

SJHA  I also had the problem of a hang at the log-in window.   
(Version 2.1.3)

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May 20 2009

SHKING  Couldn't reboot after upgrading from 2.0.4.

I rebooted in Verbose mode and found that it hangs while starting the Login Window Application.

Rebooted Safe mode and reverted back to 2.0.4  
(Version 2.1.3)

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Jun 4 2009

YOUNKINT  I had the opposite problem - hangs on logout.  
(Version 2.1.4)

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May 20 2009
**...

U P 2 U  1. Unstable, even the Installer will crash... have no word to say.

2. The background App SLOW down my Mac OS. In many case, edit the hosts to block some site is good enough.

3. Not smart enough.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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-8
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May 19 2009
*****

SHOTGUNWEDDINGS  Excellent product, does the job very well and timely updates when serious issues arise.

Thanks for a great product

As for the commentor below, I use 10.5.7 and it doesn't forget my rules. Try repairing your disk permissions or repair your hard disk. Its something on your end causing that.  
(Version 2.1.3)

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May 18 2009

EGN  After 10.5.7 update LittleSnitch "forgets" rules specially on startup and shutdown and does not seem to record them for each time I shutdown or turn one of my macs on this happens. On Intel as well a G4.  
(Version 2.1.1)

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May 14 2009

BONI  thx to PLOINKRE, this second nightly build fixes the annoying mDNSResponder alerts and saved my nerves. :-)

http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/nightly.html  
(Version 2.1.1)

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