imagent.app is trying to connect to an external website. Help needed!

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imagent.app is trying to connect to an external website. Help needed!

Hi there. I recently downloaded Little Snitch to gauge my current outgoing network traffic. When I booted up my Macbook Pro, the program told me that "imagent" was attempting to connect to a news page that I had left open on my browser. I believe this has to do with facetime, yet i wasnt using it. Could you help me in deciphering the meaning of this? Thank y'all for your help

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Posted on Mar 12, 2011 8:35 PM

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Aquabolt Author

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Mar 12, 2011 9:06 PM in response to Aquabolt

Also if i go to activity monitor i can see imagent running there too. hope this helps clarify my problem

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EZ Jim

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Mar 12, 2011 10:02 PM in response to Aquabolt

Aquabolt wrote:
Hi there. I recently downloaded Little Snitch to gauge my current outgoing network traffic. When I booted up my Macbook Pro, the program told me that "imagent" was attempting to connect to a news page that I had left open on my browser. I believe this has to do with facetime, yet i wasnt using it. Could you help me in deciphering the meaning of this? Thank y'all for your help

As you probably know, you can get FaceTime invitations even if you have quit FaceTime. That feature is provided by "imagent".

Unless you have configured the FaceTime > Preferences... > FaceTime setting to "OFF", you are still using "imagent" (and a couple of other support processes) even if you have "Quit" Facetime.

Once you set the preference to "OFF", imagent will go away, but you will not be able to receive any incoming FaceTime invitations until it is turned ON again.

EZ

Jim

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Aquabolt Author

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Mar 12, 2011 11:29 PM in response to Aquabolt

Thankyou, that helped me to remove it from my active processes. But can you explain why Little Snitch would notify me of it attempting to connect to a webpage that I had open? It basically asked for my permission to connect to "www..com" and I am not sure why

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EZ Jim

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Mar 13, 2011 6:43 AM in response to Aquabolt

Aquabolt wrote:
Thankyou, that helped me to remove it from my active processes.

You're most welcome.

But can you explain why Little Snitch would notify me of it attempting to connect to a webpage that I had open? It basically asked for my permission to connect to "www.<websitenamehere>.com" and I am not sure why

*I know nothing about "Little Snitch"*. My guess is that some cookie that the site sets is directing some exchange of information, but If you don't get the answer here, I suggest you check your Little Snitch documentation or contact Little Snitch Support. They should best be able to tell you how their product works with _your system_.

We will watch for your status update.

EZ

Jim

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Aquabolt Author

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Mar 13, 2011 4:37 PM in response to Aquabolt

Thankyou for your response.

Well, Little Snitch is basically just a program that detects outgoing traffic as I'm told. So it would seem its as simple as imagent trying to connect elsewhere, which is why I got the message. The problem lies in why it would try to connect to a random website?

Anyway, I appreciate your help. If no one can help further with this issue I will ask elsewhere. Thanks again.

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EZ Jim

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Mar 13, 2011 9:13 PM in response to Aquabolt

Aquabolt wrote:
Thankyou for your response.

Well, Little Snitch is basically just a program that detects outgoing traffic as I'm told. So it would seem its as simple as imagent trying to connect elsewhere, which is why I got the message. The problem lies in why it would try to connect to a random website?

Anyway, I appreciate your help. If no one can help further with this issue I will ask elsewhere. Thanks again.

You're welcome.

You have a good plan.

We will watch for your status update.

Cheers,
Jim

Mac Pro Quad Core (Early 2009) 2.93Ghz Mac OS X (10.6.6); MacBook Pro (13 inch, Mid 2009) 2.26GHz (10.6.6)
LED Cinema Display; G4 PowerBook 1.67GHz (10.4.11); iBookSE 366MHz (10.3.9); External iSight; iPod4touch4.2.1

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Patro

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Mar 8, 2015 5:30 PM in response to EZ Jim

Long time since this post but It's a interesting answer.

The firewall option show me only two items:

Dropbox and imagent

My question is Can we trust the Firewall to protect us from applications to install themselves and allow themselves to intrude the computer even if the firewall ban them.

Exemple is Dropbox. I agree to install Dropbox without knowing that it will bypass the firewall without telling me.

Thanks

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