WTF-why is Tiger trying to call home to APPLE toujour?

genehackgenehack
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
Well,

since last night I´m finally feeling like having arrived in the Microsoft world.

This currently affects my German localisation of Tiger,but I´m shure You

will be affected too.



here´s the deal:

I have little snitch installed.

Yesterday I upgraded to TIGER and now I got something running in the

background.

At first my "Activity Monitor" showed network access,I was connected,all

my programs were off,so was every update option in all programs,like

for example quicktime automatical update option.

There was a process running periodically called "dmnotifyd",at first I thought

it was the indexing of my HD,but when that stopped,it still showed up.

Mybe some Syncactivity related to iDisk or something.

Got me thinking.

I then installed "Little Snitch" and got shocked-

this "dmnotifyd" was cought trying to connect to Apple.



Now what is going on MS,i mean Apple?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 7
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    auto-update (software)

    time-sync

    and maybe anything else in Preferences.



    I've had Little Snitch installed since the first few minutes of Tiger install (latest 1.2b3) and never had this alert.



    Try doing a google on it
  • Reply 2 of 7
    amoryaamorya Posts: 1,103member
    According to someone on MacNN it's the dot-mac notification daemon.



    Amorya
  • Reply 3 of 7
    aplnubaplnub Posts: 2,605member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ZO

    auto-update (software)

    time-sync

    and maybe anything else in Preferences.



    I've had Little Snitch installed since the first few minutes of Tiger install (latest 1.2b3) and never had this alert.



    Try doing a google on it



    What is "qmasterd"? Where can "Little Snitch" be found?
  • Reply 4 of 7
    r3dx0rr3dx0r Posts: 201member
    click this link.
  • Reply 5 of 7
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by genehack

    what is going on MS,i mean Apple?



    Oh yes, Apple is trying to hack you. Thanks for figuring that out so you could warn the rest of us.
  • Reply 6 of 7
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    Juvenile "OMG USE TEH G00GL3 N00B" posts and followups deleted.



    If you cannot help, please don't post.



    JL
  • Reply 7 of 7
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    A simple search on Google or Yahoo! reveals exactly the information the thread starter was looking for. For example:



    Quote:

    More on "dmnotifyd" Yesterday we reported on a daemon called "dmnotifyd" that is performing background contact with Apple servers under Mac OS X 10.4. It now appears that dmnotifyd is the .Mac notification daemon (dot mac notify) and does not transmit sensitive user information.



    MacFixIt reader Dave Schroeder writes:



    "configuration.apple.com (the server dmnotifyd is attempting to contact) is just a dynamic configuration repository. In any event, dmnotifyd revolves around .Mac services and membership. You may choose to do a 'strings /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ DMNotification.framework/Versions/A/Resources/dmnotifyd' to examine some of its contents."



    Another reader adds:



    "After digging around in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ DMNotification.framework/Resources, the Info.plist says it is: .Mac Notification Framework.



    "So, I left tcpdump running overnight, and didn't see any suspicious activity going out from my system. The only time I had outbound traffic to configuration.apple.com is while viewing the .Mac System Preference. It is probably just checking on .Mac subscription status, free space, sync status, etc."



    But of course it's easier to point to Apple, boohoo and compare them to Microsoft, generalize things and claim that this is spyware.



    I'm sorry but an internet service run by Apple is going to have to contact, well, Apple.



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