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From: Basil Jet on 5 May 2010 12:01 As someone who recently migrated from PCs, I'd like to start doing internet banking on my Mac... how can I check my Mac for snooping software?
From: Woody on 5 May 2010 12:26 Basil Jet <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: > As someone who recently migrated from PCs, I'd like to start doing > internet banking on my Mac... how can I check my Mac for snooping > software? > Little snitch is good to let you know if something is trying to connect anywhere it shouldn't -- Woody
From: Rowland McDonnell on 5 May 2010 16:26 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Basil Jet <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: > > As someone who recently migrated from PCs, I'd like to start doing > > internet banking on my Mac... how can I check my Mac for snooping > > software? > > > > Little snitch is good to let you know if something is trying to connect > anywhere it shouldn't It's the catch-all solution - nothing better that I know of. <http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html> Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: J. J. Lodder on 5 May 2010 16:27 Basil Jet <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: > As someone who recently migrated from PCs, I'd like to start doing > internet banking on my Mac... how can I check my Mac for snooping software? Don't worry, be happy. You've got a Mac, remember? Jan
From: Rowland McDonnell on 5 May 2010 17:36
J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > Basil Jet <johnr(a)journeyflow.spamspam.com> wrote: > > > As someone who recently migrated from PCs, I'd like to start doing > > internet banking on my Mac... how can I check my Mac for snooping software? > > Don't worry, be happy. > > You've got a Mac, remember? .... which are *delivered* with snooping software installed by Apple, snooping on users being something that Apple likes to do. Apple's stuff, MS's stuff, everyone likes to snoop on users[1]. Rowland. (who uses Little Snitch and wants to know why Mail.app `rings home' to Apple when he runs it) [1] Except for Stefan Haller, author of MacSoup, who has not equipped that particular bit of software with anything to spy on users, no matter what any clearly mad and apparently Dutch people might claim. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |