Netbarrier anti-spywear and Entourage (Office 2004)

[Hadrian]

Hi:

A rather technical questions about my anti-spy wear software and its
behavior when checking my email.

I use Netbarrier X4 and have it set to deny any internet connections I have
not authorized.

I use Entourage from Office 2004 for my email. When I go to get or send
email, I get a warning that "LaunchCFMApp" is trying to make an internet
connection. However, a search does not find an application called
LaunchCFMApp, and so I can't add it to the trusted list.

From a LaunchCFMApp crash log, I see that LaunchCFMApp is a command issued
by Parent: WindowServer [70]. And, of course, I see no application with
that name either. The obvious, adding Entourage itself to the list of
applications permitted to connect does not help.

How do I get Netbarrier to learn this is an authorized connection?

Thanks

By the way, here's what I've found out about LaunchCFMApp
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/carbon_porting_gu
ide/cpg_buildstruct/chapter_3_section_4.html

 

[Hadrian]

I use Netbarrier X4 and have it set to deny any internet connections I have
not authorized.

I use Entourage from Office 2004 for my email. When I go to get or send
email, I get a warning that "LaunchCFMApp" is trying to make an internet
connection. However, a search does not find an application called
LaunchCFMApp, and so I can't add it to the trusted list.

From a LaunchCFMApp crash log, I see that LaunchCFMApp is a command issued
by Parent: WindowServer [70]. And, of course, I see no application with
that name either. The obvious, adding Entourage itself to the list of
applications permitted to connect does not help.

How do I get Netbarrier to learn this is an authorized connection?

Use LittleSnitch instead of Netbarrier and you won't have this problem:

<http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch>

And neither will I have all of the features of NetBarrier.

Obviously, if I stop using a product, I won't have the problem of using the
product. But why not recommend as a solution using an universal application
like Apple's Mail instead of Entourage?

I could just stop using this one feature of NetBarrier and use littlesnitch
instead, as I used to. However, I prefer the NetBarrier approach to the
anti-spywear protection and have no reason to stop using it except for this
one problem. And I prefer not to use two applications when one should do.
And I don't find Mail to be as fully featured as Entourage.

So, anyone have a way to get NetBarrier learn this is an authorized
connection?