[X-Newbies] Strange App

Philip J Robar pjrobar at areyoureallythatstupid.org
Wed Nov 30 12:29:20 PST 2005


On Nov 30, 2005, at 7:07 AM, Chris Walker wrote:

> I managed to resurrect my hard drive following a major crash  
> (failed to
> boot and wouldn't even mount) and did a fresh install of 10.4.3.  I
> reinstalled Little Snitch and one of the first things that Snitch
> blocked was an attempt by Syndication app which wanted to connect to
> akamai.net on Port 80.
>
> I've not come across this before so I blocked it.  Snitch gives the
> details as below:
>
> System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Syndication.framework/Versions/A/
> Resources/SyndicationAgent.app/contents/MacOS/SyndicationAgent
>
> Anyone know what it is?  I did wonder if it is connected with
> NetNewsWire but it isn't something I have seen before.

Try using your favorite web search site. It took me all of a few  
seconds to find the answer to your question using Google.


Phil
--
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though  
she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I  
worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say  
'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from  
the Internet?'" -- Mike Godwin, Former Electronic Frontier Foundation  
Attorney





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