Quicktime Pro

Whenever I'm running QT Pro there's continuous traffic (in each direction) to the router at ~1kB/sec, and to the internet at about half that.

I'm not particularly concerned, just curious- does anyone know what it's doing?


edit- never mind, iTunes seems to have a share of it as well, so it's probably Apple apps "phoning home".

Edited by billford (Fri 04-Jan-13 09:09:51)

It is worth installing Little Snitch to keep an eye on that sort of thing.

I'm not sure if my curiosity extends to $35-worth, but it obviously has other advantages

I'll give that some thought, thanks.

You'd be amazed the amount of stuff that phones home.

I went over my allowance last month and checked with my Little Snitch to see what was going in and out and was amazed - nay shocked, to see how much data was being transferred when I wasn't sitting in front of the screen.

Edited by deleted (Sat 05-Jan-13 11:43:42)

I think I'm going to give it a try, but for credit-card related reasons I won't install it for a few days yet (it'll give me another month before I actually have to pay for it ).

A question- I leave the iMac running 24/7, though the display will sleep after about 30 minutes of inactivity. Does Little Snitch have/cause any problems if one or more alerts pop up without being handled reasonably promptly?

Nope.

Succinct and to the point

Thanks.