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Little Snitch intercepted "Noticeboard wants to connect to swscan.apple.com" Legit?

I have Little Snitch monitor for new connection requests. For the first time, something called "noticeboard" is trying to connect to swscan.apple.com. I assume (hope) this is legit since swscan.apple.com is used for upgrades. But I've never seen it before. I've searched high and low and cannot find what "noticeboard" is. I assume it's some inner workings of the OS, but would love to know for sure. Thank you.

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 14, 2014 6:12 PM

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Mar 14, 2014 9:41 PM in response to Bruce Mann

Same Problem - same story. I'm guessing it's just recently secretly installed (pushed) by Apple. I'm betting on the latest Itunes update - could be wrong.


Blocked it "until quit" with LS. Haven't seen enough about this yet to block it permanently or allow..

Found this so far in console logs.

3/14/14 Fri, Mar 14, 2014 2:30:25 AMsudo[9833]root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.CSweoD/Scripts/com.apple.pkg.update.snowleopa rd.appstore.182-4.y5LHwk ; USER=Rocco A ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl load -S Aqua /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.noticeboard.plist
3/14/14 Fri, Mar 14, 2014 8:30:26 AMNoticeboard[10861]Noticeboard: Launched, starting NoticeboardUpdateOperation
3/14/14 Fri, Mar 14, 2014 9:37:30 AMNoticeboard[10861]Noticeboard: NoticeboardUpdateOperation failed. Terminating.
3/14/14 Fri, Mar 14, 2014 2:30:27 PMNoticeboard[11423]Noticeboard: Launched, starting NoticeboardUpdateOperation
3/14/14 Fri, Mar 14, 2014 3:27:54 PMNoticeboard[11423]Noticeboard: NoticeboardUpdateOperation failed. Terminating.


LS connection box

17.146.232.12

Established by/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Not iceboard.app/Contents/MacOS/Noticeboard
UserRocco A


No further information yet. Choices if concerned: remove the files above -- make backups first. Block it permanetly with LS.

Mar 20, 2014 3:01 PM in response to Leon Klingele

That's what I see as well.


My system.log mentions /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.noticeboard.plist among the notes from the installation of Mac App Store Update v1.0.


No previous mention of "noticeboard" in system.log.


Since then, every 24(+/-3) hours I have:

Noticeboard[7064]: Noticeboard: Launched, starting NoticeboardUpdateOperation


It has connected on TCP port 443 (https) to

swscan.apple.com

swscan.apple.com.akadns.net

Mar 21, 2014 8:09 AM in response to Bruce Mann

I'm getting the same popup...


"Noticeboard"

wants to connect to swscan.apple.com on TCP port 443 (https)



I found this at download.cnet.com …


"….Noticeboard is an enhanced Digital Signage software that supports multiple display in various combination of touch screens and normal LCD screens. Besides the normal support for video, graphic, images and text, it also comes with built-in animation and supports scheduling of third parties software like power-point, acrobat reader, YouTube videos…"

I had no idea I had such a thing in my system. I've been denying it; afraid to allow it. Any ideas on whether allowing it is OK?

Mar 21, 2014 8:39 AM in response to David Cun

I've been allowing it, but I have no idea what it is doing. My original concern was that it was a legitimate piece of Apple-installed software. From the comments in this thread, it does appear to at least be legitimate and not some type of malware. Whether it is spying on me for Apple, or sending my information to the NSA - that I can't say.😉 But I've been allowing it and I have not run into any system glitches so far.

Mar 21, 2014 10:02 AM in response to David Cun

David Cun wrote:


I found this at download.cnet.com …


"….Noticeboard is an enhanced Digital Signage software that supports multiple display in various combination of touch screens and normal LCD screens. Besides the normal support for video, graphic, images and text, it also comes with built-in animation and supports scheduling of third parties software like power-point, acrobat reader, YouTube videos…"

I had no idea I had such a thing in my system. I've been denying it; afraid to allow it. Any ideas on whether allowing it is OK?


No, that's a completely different piece of software (for Windows, not the Mac OS) that just happens to have the same name.

Mar 22, 2014 8:43 AM in response to David Cun

If you are only running the demo, get rid of it and get it directly from the developer http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html


If you purchased it and have a license key for it, uninstall it and then reinstall it from obdev, using the license key.


Almost none of these download/update sites can be trusted not to bundle in adware now. Softonic--not where you got it, but just as a FYI--is one of the worst.


I also wouldn't trust any of the other items you got not to contain adware.


But uninstalling these won't remove any adware, if you got any.


http://www.thesafemac.com/arg/

Mar 22, 2014 3:01 PM in response to Bruce Mann

well, the Noticeboard.app is definitely from Apple. the file in the get info window or QuickView (pressing spacebar on selected file) says: Copyright © 2014 Apple Inc. All rights reserved | Version 1.0.


I just did an Apple software update before rebooting and then got this notice for the first time as well after reboot. it has nothing to do with Little Snitch (or Adware) as i haven't updated that in months.

Little Snitch intercepted "Noticeboard wants to connect to swscan.apple.com" Legit?

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