He is right, their are viruses for Linux and Mac, actually, any Linux virus would essentially run on mac also, especially something for BSD. Anyways, most of them are rootkits, and the reason you don’t see as many isn’t due to the normal thought of, no one uses a mac so why bother targeting them, yet if you got a mass virus out for Mac, you would do a LOT of damage.

Here is the issue with a virus on mac, you HAVE to rely on social engineering, and extensive social engineering at that. YOu can’t do just the trick of open this e-mail greeting card or got to this website for free porn. Mac, just like Linux REQUIRES your root password to install and run anything that modifies with the kernel and system files or tries to run as a server process (in basic terms). No one runs as “root”, so it can’t be automatic. Now you have to get them to go to the site, get the virus, and go oh, ok, I will type in my password also.

It has been done, but only on a small scale, most users know what is going to happen if an unknown program wants root access. Windows doesn’t have that level of protection really, you can set the security policies to require an admin login, but that is a pain. So, with windows poof, you got the virus. So, not a matter of how may users, more of a matter of “effectiveness” no one wants to write a virus that only gets 2% of all users.

This app is very useful, thanks for the heads up and link.

However, little snitch gives you a better application to monitor network connections. Little snitch allows applications to access what urls/resources you provide and block the rest.

Oh, a heads up. If you download this, to avoid little snitch “phoning home” you need to block access to little snitch UI. To do this do the following…
1) load up little snitch configurations
2)click new
3)add HD:library:little snitch:little snitch UI
4)choose deny connections and choose always.

Little snitch will no long be able to check against pirated serials.

enjoy this cracking program.

@13 GT: Thanks for the link! Never heard of Comodo before. I’ve been using Kerio 2.1.x for what feels like an eternity. Comodo looks like a fantastic free replacement, and it even works with Vista (not that I’d ever use Vista lol).

Perhaps you can answer a quick question. Does it support wildcards when entering IP addresses? Didn’t see anything in the PDF manual regarding this. This is something Outpost Firewall Pro does, a program which costs money that I’ve also been looking into.

Thanks again!

(dont forget to bloack the actual app from phoning home;)

Little Snitch 2.0.2:

Serial: 32RP2EDXN0-719GP-KRRU76R15E

Thanks to the Special [K] Team

[code]http://www.obdev.at/ftp/pub/Products/LittleSnitch/LittleSnitch_2.0.2.dmg[/code]

[quote]Reposted in case it gets buried in the Little Snitch thread or it get’s archived in the future.

[b]Avoid Little Snitch 2.0 Calling Home[/b]
After a few reboots, I found only 1 file needs to be blocked, the others 3 files installed [b]will[/b] cause side effects you don’t want if blocked.

Block all outgoing connections to [b]Little Snitch UIAgent.app[/b] only

[b]You can find it in the System Process’ stack when you open up Activity Monitor.[/b]
[img]http://i13.tinypic.com/8f5jcc8.png[/img]

P.s. Just quote this message and copy/paste parts of it if you wanna share these notes & picture elsewhere as a warning to others.[/quote]