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I don't run traditional antivirus but I do run: https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html (free) De
by tekstar 8y ago
I don't run traditional antivirus but I do run:
https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html (free)
Detects when software attempts to install itself to run at startup and lets you block the registration.
https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html (paid)
detects, reports, blocks applications connecting to the internet.
https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html (paid)
High quality adblocker for safari.
- jbob2000 8y agoI am super skeptical about ad guard and I'm looking for someone to allay that skepticism. It's just... too clean. I don't trust software this perfect, especially since it's made in Russia and sees all the internet traffic on my computer.
- tekstar 8y agoI didn't know it was made in Russia! Up until now I've had a good experience, and trusted reviews. But as an experiment I just tried removing the little snitch filter that lets adguard create all outgoing connections. it looks like adguard will request some or all requests that my web browser makes (like, it'll also request JS from slack or facebook). This might be because it detects and blocks crypto miner JS, or maybe some other heuristics. So far it hasn't tried to phone home but it's hard to look for that with little snitch when it's trying to connect to every site I browse to.
- jbob2000 8y agoYeah, I ran their free trial and had a good experience. I did the same kind of tests you did, but I still don't feel comfortable with it. It's just too slick. That mixed with the fact that their entire team is Russian nationals... I dunno. Too sketchy.