Q: nbagent process, what is it?

Apparently it's Little Snitch >  Little Snitch intercepted "Noticeboard wants to connect to swscan.apple.com" Legit?

It's a built-in process, undocumented but apparently involved in sending notifications from Apple.

"Little Snitch" is good for nothing but wasting your time with pointless alerts like those and interfering with normal system operation.

It appears to be something related to Software Update and/or the Mac App Store, so allowing it seems safe. I'd speculate that it showed up in the latest OS X update since I'd never seen it before today either, and the first google hits seem to appear only very recently.

To the repliers:

I don't know what crusade y'all are on against Little Snitch, but it's a very useful utility for keeping an eye on what apps are trying to make network connections. If you're running up against people without the technical knowledge to make effective use of it I can see how it could be easier to advise them not to use a tool they don't understand. But advising a blanket "LS is evil; don't use it" for a legitimate pinpoint question about a specific connection-attempt is overkill.

FUD doesn't belong on the Apple discussion boards, no matter how many points you have.

This discussion is proof of the fact that "Little Snitch" is time-wasting rubbish. I have seen hundreds and maybe thousands like it, but I've never once heard of "Little Snitch" doing anything useful for anyone. If you install software that you don't trust, you have problems that it's not going to solve.

Little Snitch is one of the most valuable utilities I run, despite what the uninformed might think. It gives you an idea of how many leeches there are out there wanting to suck information from your computer that you wouldn't know about otherwise.

You can permanently allow any alert you get from Little Snitch so you don't have to be bothered with those alerts, despite what the uninformed might think.

Also, you don't have to buy or use Little Snitch if you don't want to, despite what the uninformed might think.

Linc, you're clueless mate. Like the other two guys said, Little Snitch is an excellent tool if you know how to use it.

If you can't answer the question of what NBAGENT is then any addition troll like behavior serves no purpose other then you being the rear end of a donkey. It is a valid question that deserves an answer or just plain silence. Being an egotistical snarky mules *** helps no one

Rachael Jellicoe

It's not my intention to feed the troll but, man, you don't really know what you're talking about, do you?

It's very useful to control your outbound, that way you can see what apps are trying to do on the internet and you can restrict their behavior.

Yes, it can be annoying sometimes, but it's useful (it's for security sake) and it has a purpose.

Legit businesses were sending home too much information in Apple's IOS platform, for instance, that's why Apple implemented mechanisms that allow you to restrict apps behavior and access to sensitive information like Calendar, Address Book, etc.

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Hello, I find Little Snitch very useful for my scenario: I tether my MacBook Pro to my iPad. I have a profile in Little Snitch for tethering, and it prevents things like software update from happening while I'm tethered to my iPad. A saviour for my scenario, simplifies things a lot. I have a profile for home, and it allows all software updates automatically.

Mat

The ONLY REAL waste of time in this thread

is reading your posts Linc Davis!

simweb wrote:

 

The ONLY REAL waste of time in this thread

is reading your posts Linc Davis!

So much knowledge, so little use for it.

I agree Csound1

And we still do not know what the NBAGENT service is for.

Why it is there. What traffic it is transfering. Is it nessesary to have it running... etc.

Apple Support Forums is quite often waste of time.

That is my experience.

Approx 99% of the support information on Apple Support Forums is to no use.

Peace

even excellenter if you know what to use it for