Little Snitch or other program

[netnothing]

I'm thinking of getting Little Snitch so that I can track/block outbound requests on my Mac Pro. This is especially useful for any password program I get (other than using keychain) to make sure it doesn't phone-home with any info.

Is Little Snitch the best out there? Is it safe and reliable?

Does anyone think Leopard will have the functionality built in?

-Kevin

 

[Xavier]

I have Little Snitch and it works perfectly. Never had a problem.

It really is the only app that I ever used of its kind, but why use others when this works fine.

It is hard to say because not everything about Leopard has been revealed. There is a chance that it could but you never know. Just got to wait and see :/

 

[apfhex]

Is Little Snitch the best out there? Is it safe and reliable?

Does anyone think Leopard will have the functionality built in?

I've used it. It works good.

I've heard that ipfw (the firewall OS X has built-in) can block outgoing requests but there's no GUI for it. I don't think they're adding this in Leopard, but ya never know.