nbagent process, what is it?

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

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.

even excellenter if you know what to use it for

Actually, Little Snitch saved me from the Flashback trojan. A blog I visited redirected me to a bogus site with the trojan; at the time, I didn't know what it was, but later I recognized the URL as a Flashback infection site. My Mac did not test positive for Flashback later, however. Why not? Because I was running Little Snitch, wanting to know who my software is reporting to and controlling what traffic I see. Similar reason to why I run browser extensions like Do Not Track Me.

The variant of Flashback I encountered self-destructed when it saw I ran Snitch, for good reason: hackers don't want anyone to catch on to what they're doing. If you run Snitch, then there's a good chance that you'll see the traffic, catch on, and blow the whistle. Ergo the self-destruct.

Yes, Snitch has a barrage of notifications you must sort out for the first few weeks. Once you are beyond that, however, you control what traffic is allowed and what is not, and any new notification is an alert that something new is happening. In short, yeah, it's troubling to be alert to invasions of privacy and dangers inherent to the net. But it's often worth the trouble. It's saved me a lot of pain so far.

Linc Davis wrote:

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.

The point of security software is not to catch software you install.

The point of security software is to catch software you did not install.

Macs often run forever without getting infected by malware, but that is not Little Snitch's fault.

Where does the information that explains any of this start. I am more confused now then before. Instead of talking down to people pretend they are not experts (which is the purpose of this forum) not everyone understands technobabble

Rachael

Is there a support question in that?

Every post must contain a support question? And yes there was a question for an explanation, I guess you missed how obvious it was.

Rachael

Old thread, I know, but I just had to say this: You're saying that Little Snitch is "useless"? You're really saying that, in a post-Snowden world, it's "stupid" to want to know what your computer is communicating with? Because as far as I can see, what's really stupid is wilful ignorance. We have a right—and now we know we also have a need—to know what lines of communication our computers are establishing, so that we can prevent them from establishing communication with malicious entities. I'm sure that personal autonomy is an end that you, as a Kantian, can appreciate. So please, if you're going to hate on LS, hate on it because it (say) isn't good software, or doesn't do what it's supposed to do very well (two things which, by the way, I wouldn't agree with, but that's another post). Don't hate on it because it's "stupid" to want to know if and how you're being watched and what it is that's watching you, because that's not stupid at all; and I bet that if you really thought about it, you'd realize that.

I have noticed in my console log with my Mac disconnected from any network and not using my Mac the following message.

20-09-2015 8:46:20.278 AM nbagent[9081]: XPC Activity invoked with state=0

20-09-2015 8:46:20.279 AM nbagent[9081]: XPC Activity invoked with state=2

I am very happy to read your reply. Little Snitch is a fabulous application for OS X. The people who put it down always seem to be the same people. They must work for Apple in some capacity. I wish we could go back to the days when you turned on your mac/machine and you the user made every outside connection to the internet. Now I have dozens of connections "trying" to be made as soon as I start up my Macbook Pro. My nbagent process was trying to connect to swscan.apple.com for no apparent reason. Please read my post I just made about this whole "Little Snitch" controversy... Here is the link.

Unwanted network connections.