LittleSnitch- has squealed on PathFinder.

[alarson2]

I have had PathFinder for only four or five days. I am also running a program called LittleSnitch which is designed to tell the user when an application wants to connect to the internet on it's own without permission- like a spyware would. Pathfinder wants to connect to the internet almost every day and I am a little concerned that I am being monitored since having installed the program. Does anyone know what's up with this? Are my keystrokes being harvested somewhere in Bavaria or Taiwan? So far I have denied permission to PathFinder to connect to the internet. Is there any reason not to? What's going on here?
Alan

[neilio]

It's just doing a version check. This is the file it's accessing:

http://www.cocoatech.com/PathFinder_MacPad.plist

Trust me, we hate spyware as much as the next person and would never, ever add a hidden feature into Path Finder that would compromise your privacy.

Sigh. We live in paranoid times, don't we?

Neil

[alarson2]

We sure do! I have 3 peecees in the closet that are just ruined because of that spyware crap. And virtually all my Windows friends are having regular trouble with all the malicious stuff out there.

Thank you for easing my mind. I will let it connect.

Alan

[jzdziarski]

I imagine this ought to be particularly useful in preventing piracy as well, aye?

[Ilgaz]

There is one verified spyware on Apple OS X platform.

Not giving name because as far as I hate them, they figured OS X users aren't that stupid and removed the spyware functionality. Funny enough, I was infected accidentally and I was the same guy reported the windows version to Wired Mag :)

Check if you have anything "shop" in your control panel. If there is, go to official mac os x support forums and post to related topic.

Also, no need to blame developer for sneaking whoever uses cracked version, I don'T think it does anything more than "is it updated"? check

I don't think developers care who cracked their application. I wouldn't care about any living organism that low stealing months if not years of hard work. Applies to everything.