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> I've just installed Little Snitch, and I'm puzzled by a couple
> of things it's reporting on:
>
> 1. A process called rsmac_3630 keeps talking to cn1.redswoosh.akadns.net.
> (This seems to be connected with my trial version of Adobe CS.) But even
> though I've told LS to block all connections from rsmac_3630, and all
> connections to cn1.redswoosh.akadns.net, it keeps re-connecting.
Little Snitch prevents things from making outbound connections, but it
does not prevent them from *trying* to connect out. The Little Snitch
network monitor flags up every attempted connection whether it succeeds
or not.
If commonly occurring notifications in the LS network monitor irritate
you, or cause you to lose the signal in the noise, then you can tell LS
to disable the notification for specific processes. Ctrl-click, or
right-click on the notification itself to find this option on the menu.
> 2. Skype connects to lots of things, of course: this is how Skype works. But
> shortly after Skype connects to some address, processes from VM Fusion and
> Drobo Dashboard kick in, connecting to the same address Skype has just spoken
> to. This, even though I haven't used VM Fusion in months.
That sounds very curious. I would need more information to discover
what's really going on, but I'll hazard a guess that Skype is trying to
use NAT-PMP or UPnP via all available interfaces to open a port on your
router which can then be used by the rest of the Skype network to
forward calls for other Skype users.
Specifically this helps people behind non-traversable NAT devices make
calls to each other (thus stealing your bandwidth for the commercial
benefit of the already wealthy Skype Ltd).
Given that an installation of VMware adds some virtual network
interfaces, when Skype tries to send traffic over them, VMware
components are invoked to handle it. Just guessing, but this is probably
why you are seeing VMware realted entries when using Skype.
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Frankly, Skype is a very scary thing to be running on your computer if
you care about security. It's closed proprietary code that may or may
not contain intentional backdoors or unintentional security holes. It
encrypts most of its communications so you have no way of knowing what
kind of information it is sending from your computer out to the cloud of
peers which, rather like a botnet, can pass information back and forth
in so many ways it would be untraceable. There's no way you can keep
track of all the IPs it connects to, or limit their number using Little
Snitch, so if you want to run Skype usefully you have to tell LS to
allow all connections from Skype, and that means you'll never notice
when it does start sending your keystrokes or passwords to ether Skype
Ltd or the hoards of faceless spooks and crooks that would salivate at
the thought of being able to reap such a global harvest. Worst of all,
Skype is, like all IM clients, something you normally keep running all
the time to allow other people to contact you, and this means it is
facing the Internet for longer than any web browser or email client and
would be an ideal target for a fast spreading worm.
My advice is that, if you're going to run Skype at all, run it in a
clean VM guest that you keep separate from other VM guests. And make
sure you disable UPnP and NAT-PMP on all your routers, AirPort devices, etc.
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