Disable Little Snitch Mac Air 2
With regard to the need for Sophos, see my Mac Malware Guide. There is Mac malware out there, and Sophos will protect you against it quite well, but Mac OS X does a pretty good job itself as well. One class of borderline malware - called adware - is becoming increasingly common, but most of it is not blocked by either Sophos or Mac OS X, unfortunately. Thus it's more important to know how to protect yourself.
How to block Little Snitch from calling home and killing numbers: 1. The first step is to block Little Snitch with Little Snitch. Create two new rules in Little Snitch as below. The developer would cease and desist from killing the number that you personally are using successfully on your Mac. At least until the next version is released.
Little Snitch is a mixed bag. On the one hand, there has been malware that short-circuited its own install process if Little Snitch was present... thus, just having Little Snitch installed prevented installation, because the hackers behind the malware knew that Little Snitch would prevent it from working properly. On the other hand, some malware has been known to completely disable Little Snitch and go on with its malicious business unimpeded.
- Little Snitch: Version 4 of macOS-Firewall Launched Objective Development's software application offers new innovative features in this new version, such as a world map where you can comprehend.
- Jun 05, 2015 I have recently upgraded my little snitch software and noticed that disabling or removing protected rules is no longer possible. I would like to revert back to a previous version where i can remove or disable protected rules I don't like.
Little Snitch 4
None of this malware is still viable, due to updates to Mac OS X. However, because of the possibility of the latter, Little Snitch cannot be relied on. If the malware is already running on your machine, it's too late for something like Little Snitch to be a reliable way of blocking outbound connections. If you choose to use Little Snitch with full knowledge of this limitation, that's fine.