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MBP 1,1-10,2 any alternatives to little snitch for OS X 10.7?

SevenTheGamingKitty

SevenTheGamingKitty

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I've been starting to care more about security, and I'm kind of maining an outdated OS.
Little snitch is paid (and probably inaccessible) so is there any alternatives I could try?
 
You can go to their website and download older versions for older OSes, version 3.3.4 works with Lion. You can buy a license for v4/5, it works with v3. I don't know about v6 but apparently you can register v5 with v6 so I would assume so.
 
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You can go to their website and download older versions for older OSes, version 3.3.4 works with Lion. You can buy a license for v4/5, it works with v3. I don't know about v6 but apparently you can register v5 with v6 so I would assume so.
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I'm aware that it's probably possible to activate older versions, but I don't want to try buying something that may or may not work (not that I could afford it) :/
 
MBP 1,1-10,2 means any MacBook Pro from #1 to 10,2 the retina models?
and what operating system is in doubt?

first of all.
if you feel insecure,  worked, since that is their plan.
and you need to cure that doubt with a new $M5 anything with Tahoe'd.

reality is
if this is a MacBook Pro 2013 retina running ummm Catalina you should be fine.
since I use a MacBook Pro 2012 13" dvd slot which is now a ssd.
I run Mojave and order chewey, bike parts and other online junk
as I never experienced a hack, security risk or internet problem.
as perhaps a third party program could defeat the purpose.

personally I think this updating is a marketing tool so we buy a Mac every 4 years.
but that is just me perspective.
as I don't bank or visit harmful sites, since I can't on Mojave.

hope this helped.
 
SevenTheGamingKitty said:
…but I don't want to try buying something that may or may not work (not that I could afford it) :/
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Little Snitch works. I've used it since Leopard on my PowerPC Macs. I'm now on Sonoma on my MacPro.

But if you want an alternative, you can try LULU. Just be careful when updating. I tried it on my work Mac at one point and the update failed. Removing it completely became a process after that. But it does work.

Never mind, sorry - you're on 10.7.
 
Turns out I forgot to post my reply even though I typed it. oops
MBAir2010 said:
MBP 1,1-10,2 means any MacBook Pro from #1 to 10,2 the retina models?
and what operating system is in doubt?
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MBP 9,2, and the OS is in the title of the post. :p (AKA it's lion, so you don't need to scroll up.)

MBAir2010 said:
first of all.
if you feel insecure,  worked, since that is their plan.
and you need to cure that doubt with a new $M5 anything with Tahoe'd.
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LOL! i hope that was a joke

MBAir2010 said:
reality is
if this is a MacBook Pro 2013 retina running ummm Catalina you should be fine.
since I use a MacBook Pro 2012 13" dvd slot which is now a ssd.
I run Mojave and order chewey, bike parts and other online junk
as I never experienced a hack, security risk or internet problem.
as perhaps a third party program could defeat the purpose.
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I'm mostly caring as I'm coming here from using older windows versions and knowing the fact that older OS X versions *do* have security flaws in even the parts you'd least expect is a bit frightening, so it'd be nice to know I'd have a little more security on my machine.

Is someone using an old version of OS X so improbable it's not worth targeting? Yes. Will someone still do it? Probably.

MBAir2010 said:
personally I think this updating is a marketing tool so we buy a Mac every 4 years.
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Wasn't planning on updating anyway, Macs are expensive.

eyoungren said:
Little Snitch works. I've used it since Leopard on my PowerPC Macs. I'm now on Sonoma on my MacPro.
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The problem is I don't know if keys bought now will work on older versions, and I don't want to try it even if I could afford it.
 
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MBAir2010 said:
first of all.
if you feel insecure,  worked, since that is their plan.
and you need to cure that doubt with a new $M5 anything with Tahoe'd.
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I actually have just realized what this is trying to say
I'm not insecure because it's old, I'm insecure because I'm using an OS that hasn't been updated since 2012.
 
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SevenTheGamingKitty said:
I actually have just realized what this is trying to say
I'm not insecure because it's old, I'm insecure because I'm using an OS that hasn't been updated since 2012.
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If you are looking for supported os on old Macs, give MX Linux a try. Free to use, it’s a light distro, currently supported (just released mx25) & works very well on Intel Macs IME. Also free within the Linux ecosystem, Opensnitch is a Linux port of littlesnitch.
 
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Certificate of Excellence said:
If you are looking for supported os on old Macs, give MX Linux a try. Free to use, it’s a light distro, currently supported (just released mx25) & works very well on Intel Macs IME. Also free within the Linux ecosystem, Opensnitch is a Linux port of littlesnitch.
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If I wanted a supported OS, I would've installed Linux Mint instead of downgrading to Lion. (although you don't know that, oops)
 
have tried going back to Mavericks on a Mac Pro 2013, there is website called mavericks for ever, with tutorials etc, even how to connect icloud, but it was a failure, any web browser trafic locked up the browser, i did not want to invest too much time into it.
anyway, enough ranting,
LittleSnitch can be run as demo, so why dont you try that?
i think they give you several hours free to test it, they do have 'older versions' section

ps. im sorry you ended on an ignore list for doing absolutely nothing wrong :)
 
Krakenmare said:
have tried going back to Mavericks on a Mac Pro 2013, there is website called mavericks for ever, with tutorials etc, even how to connect icloud, but it was a failure, any web browser trafic locked up the browser, i did not want to invest too much time into it.
anyway, enough ranting,
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Heard of that site! It's pretty useful for the most basic essentials that otherwise wouldn't work

Krakenmare said:
LittleSnitch can be run as demo, so why dont you try that?
i think they give you several hours free to test it, they do have 'older versions' section
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I'll definitely use that, although part of the problem is that I don't want to reactivate it every 2 hours. better than nothing though


Krakenmare said:
ps. im sorry you ended on an ignore list for doing absolutely nothing wrong :)
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No, I should be sorry. :v
 
ahh, you dont want to pay, sorry missed that bit..
can i talk you into it?
i cant imagine a mac without it :) they do a great job and never had any issues with it, one annoyance is that carbon copied OS rules dont carry over, so have to have an 'export' backup otherwise its smooth sailing. Well to think more about it you do have to pay for new versions when new macOS comes out but its not every release.
I think Sonoma was the last paid upgrade, but you know at the end of the day I dont mind supporting the company as it's an essential tool.
There is also one more big big plus, but i dont want to mention it in public :)


dont be sorry, that guy was probably having a bad day
 
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Krakenmare said:
ahh, you dont want to pay, sorry missed that bit..
can i talk you into it?
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Unlikely considering that unlike others of my age, I don't have any money (not even an allowance!)
I'll consider it in the future, though!

Krakenmare said:
i cant imagine a mac without it :) they do a great job and never had any issues with it, one annoyance is that carbon copied OS rules dont carry over, so have to have an 'export' backup otherwise its smooth sailing. Well to think more about it you do have to pay for new versions when new macOS comes out but its not every release.
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Considering that I'm stuck by choice on OS X Lion, I don't think the downsides will effect me. :p

Krakenmare said:
I think Sonoma was the last paid upgrade, but you know at the end of the day I dont mind supporting the company as it's an essential tool.
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Usually people would complain that the software isn't free because it's an essential tool, but I can understand that viewpoint

Krakenmare said:
There is also one more big big plus, but i dont want to mention it in public :)
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...I can imagine what it might be. XP



Krakenmare said:
dont be sorry, that guy was probably having a bad day
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..okay. help i dont know what to say
 
I'm running the lite version that only scans, and I am intrigued.

To the people using Little Snitch, what is on your block list? (if you can say)
And to to those that find it essential, can't live without it- Can you elaborate why? Thanks.
 
>DMG of Little Snitch 2.5.4 (last version compatible with Tiger), shipped with a working serial number inside the dmg. It was repacked by a rutracker member in 2012, so it's the unmodified 2.5.4 that obdev.at distributed back in the day.

> publisher added extra protections in the 2.5.4 version that they are offering right now

Hmm that's interesting. By this do they mean the dev originally provided a 2.5.4 serial for free, then later retracted it with a silent update? Or that the version was never meant to come with a serial, but the older 2.0.3 serial happened to work?

Regardless, if it's the unmodified binary that's pretty nice. Good range of compatibility too, 10.4 - 10.8
 
TheShortTimer said:
I'm surprised that no-one else has suggested that you check the versions that are available on the Macintosh Garden as they include licences for the releases that should work with Lion. That will save you having to restart the firewall every couple of hours - which sounds like unnecessary hassle to me. :)
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last time i tried little snitch serials from archival sites (specifically Macintosh Repository in my case), it would ""register"" but it would then reject the license after 3 hours as if it was simply in demo mode all along
 
SevenTheGamingKitty said:
last time i tried little snitch serials from archival sites (specifically Macintosh Repository in my case), it would ""register"" but it would then reject the license after 3 hours as if it was simply in demo mode all along
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although that might've been from me using the version of little snitch provided from the website, not the archive
 
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