Skype for Mac on Leopard
By
Villu Arak on November 7, 2007 in Reviews and news.
Update on Nov 29: The issue is now resolved. For more details, please read my post on the Skype Mac blog.
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Like a lot of people in the Mac community, we're excited that Mac OS X Leopard is now out in the wild. As you may have read, Skype runs into trouble when Leopard's firewall is activated. At the moment, this affects a minority of Skype users.
However, we wanted to let you know that we're embracing Apple's new security efforts. By doing so, we're continuing to ensure that Skype for Mac is the most secure internet-calling platform a Mac user can get. Our engineers are tweaking Skype for Mac and as soon as safely possible, the issue will be resolved. In a few weeks, the fix will be included in an updated version of Skype that has a loving relationship with the Leopard firewall.
Comments
Even with the firewall disabled I am unable to sign in. Occasionally, and after a long wait, Skype will activate. Do I need to look elsewhere?
garyandjenny | Monday, Nov 12
Hello.
I have only just upgraded to Leopard. I am using 2.7 on a MacBook Pro, on Broadband. All seems to be fine, thanks.
However, because of security issues from accidentally hitting a rogue Google 'find' in 2007 (the Google index was hacked last year, briefly, although no-one will admit to it) I had installed Little Snitch. Today, Little Snitch announced that someone was communicating with my Mac OS X Kernel. Details gave 92.246.173.181 ... Russian?
Examination of the logs revealed that it had done this via Skype - which usually uses UDP but in this and a few other instances was not.
Should I be concerned here?!
Jenny
ecojenny | Friday, Dec 5