[X-Newbies] Keeping aps from automatically calling home

[Chris]

Not directly related to the topic but isn't there a 'known hosts' file
which you can use to block unwanted connections?  I came across this for
Windows but I imagine something similar would work for OSX

<http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/>

Not sure how this would work with OSX as I don't have the technical
knowledge, but perhaps someone could tell us.

Otherwise, I can recommend Little Snitch.  Not sure of the URL, but
Google is your friend.

cheers,

Chris

On 11/1/07 Peter Saint James wrote:

>	Quite a number of applications are set to automatically go on-line  
>to do things like check for updates.  Sometimes this amounts to no  
>more than presenting me with an ad.  Often it's a hassle.  I don't  
>like it.  I don't want anything on the system to access the internet  
>in any way automatically except the clock.
>
>	I thought there was a setting somewhere in system preferences to  
>keep this from happening, but I can't find it.  Does such a  
>preference exist?  Or is there some other way to keep apps from  
>calling home?
>
>
>	TIA.
>
>
>							Peter
>
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