My dual 2.3 GHz G5 w/10.5.6 froze strangely with the cursor & mouse still moving with the spinning beachball icon, and no other functionality. The clock was frozen also. I waited 5 minutes and nothing changed. No commands for "Force Quit" worked, so I rebooted by holding the power button on the case.
Upon reboot something different happened. I have Little Snitch installed. A process called "natd" wanted to connect to "local.host" via many UDP ports (about 20 total) in the series between 49159 and 49195. A Google search of "natd" and "OS X" seems to indicate there may be some security issue, however this report says that ALL versions of OS X are vulnerable EXCEPT version 10.5.6 that I'm using?: <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32874> I "allowed" these connections in Little Snitch, thinking they were normal OS X things, but now I'm not sure? This was on initial boot, no applications were running other than the login items. Here's the login items list: iTunesHelper, ATI Monitor, Airport Base Station Agent, FontExplorerXAutoload, SMARTReporter, gtslauncherdaemon, EyeTV Helper. I've rebooted several times, and each time this entire string of natd connections wants to connect. This is very different behavior than before. The strange freeze with the mouse working but everything else frozen seems to me that it might be a "buffer overflow" as minimally described in the recent security bulletin above? Any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
