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Starting with macOS 10.15.4 the above “Legacy System Extension” message will be shown when Little Snitch is installed.
→ Please read this blog post to learn more about why this message is shown.
Will there be an update of Little Snitch that’s compatible with macOS 10.16?
- 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.
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Reset Little Snitch Rules 2017
Yes. We are going to release Little Snitch 5 later this year, which will be compatible with macOS 10.16. → Learn more…
Will I get the update for free?
Yes. All licenses sold now include a free upgrade to Little Snitch 5. In addition, customers who purchased Little Snitch 4 within a one-year period prior to the final release of Little Snitch 5 will also get a free upgrade. → Learn more…
Will Little Snitch 4 run on macOS 10.16?
Little Snitch 4 will not be loaded on macOS 10.16 by default, but there will still be an option to allow the loading. → Learn more…
The Protagonists
Gatekeeper is a security feature of macOS. Among other things it makes sure that apps that are in quarantine (= were downloaded from the internet or received via AirDrop) are temporarily moved to a private location when launched, until the user explicitly moves them to their final destination (like the Applications folder) – a procedure also known as “app translocation” or “path randomization”.
So far, so good. What does this mean in combination with Little Snitch?
Little Snitch rules partially are based on an app’s or process’ path – the sequence of folders and subfolders the app currently is residing in on your disk. If that changes (the app is moved) then the rules cease to be valid.
The Problem
If you put these two things together it becomes impossible to create permanent (“Forever”) rules in Little Snitch for apps that are still in quarantine, because each time they are launched they will be launched from a different path. You know this is the case if the Little Snitch Network Alert shows something like
/private/var/…
in the path of the app.The Vanilla Remedy
Normally the solution is to not launch the app you downloaded right from the Downloads folder but to simply move it to a proper location, like the Applications folder. Piece o’cake.
But what if you, the user, did not download the app consciously. What if some software update process downloaded it in the background. Or what if it's not the app itself but some sub-part (e.g. a helper XPC process) that is still under quarantine?
That should normally be taken care of by the developer of the software that initiated the update or uses the helper. They should make sure that all these updates and parts are de-quarantined before being used.
Well, should. But some don’t. Little snitch mac os x 10.6.
The Black Sheep
We’ve had several reports of customers that tried to create rules in Little Snitch for some app and had to do this over and over again because the rules just didn’t stick. On further investigation it turned out that the app, or a part of it, still was under quarantine and therefore launched by Gatekeeper from a different path each and every time.
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So what’s the solution?
The Tinker Remedy
Well, the best solution of course would be that app developers properly de-quarantine all parts of their software when downloading updates.
But what can the user do, if the developers don't deliver?
You can de-quarantine all parts of an application yourself. Just launch the Terminal app (
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
), enter the following command and press Return:Reset Little Snitch Rules List
The
/Applications/SomeApp.app
part of course is to be replaced by the name of the app in question and the folder it resides in.This will remove the quarantine flags of the app itself and all parts of it – if they all reside inside the .app wrapper (which they should).
And after doing that please write a friendly reminder email to the guys that created that app… :)