Block adobe activation Steve Stonebraker posted this in Howto, Mac, Windows on March 12th, 2011 To block adobe from phoning home you need to modify your hosts file: on a mac.

# These are windows host file entries to block Adobe CS5 & CS6 online product activation. # Removed all outdated hosts + sorted alphabetically. Updated: 12:01PM EST - 1/1/2013 # (Can't save your host file? Right click on hosts file.

Then Goto properties -> Security Tab. # -> Select the username your logged into -> Click Edit -> Allow full access -> OK & CLOSE. # -> When you're finished editing host file.switch it back to read-only properties. # Simply place all of these entries into your host file.it's pretty simple!

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Either message the mod team if relevant, or make a post on the sub as normal. Browse by filters: Related Subreddits • • • • • • •. I referenced this older to update my hosts file and thought I'd share the results since I made it in an easy to use batch file for Windows Users. And yes, I've omitted 'crl.verisign.net.*' because the Windows host file doesn't work with wildcards, so it's useless. Feel free to google it yourself. If I'm missing any, please let me know. Or if you know of a way to verify that these links should be blocked in the first place (I'm aware of nslookup in cmd but I'm not entirely sure that such sites would respond to such an inquiry).

Supposedly AMT Emu eliminates the need but I've seen installations get deactivated. Can't remember if the person I had set it up for updated it or not.

Sparkchess 6 full version free download. So I've used this to help prevent it from connecting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Take the info from the paste bin, copy all of it from one of the links below, paste it into Notepad and save the filename as whatever you please but be sure to add '.bat' at the end (without quotes). Anything that says '127' method' means it uses 127.0.0.1 for the loopback address and has wider compatibility. Anything that says '0 method' means it uses 0.0.0.0 for the loopback address and should be used on Windows 8.1 or newer operating systems. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • • Most likely to have issues with adding in all entries appropriately to the host file. It should be perfect as it is, but adding new entries to this file or re-arranging the script may result in a less than positive experience.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • • This seems to work better and more or less works off of the same methodology as the. However I'm more confident that there is a much smaller chance of somehow not getting all entries stored into the hosts file even as this file is manually updated (by yourself since this was pasted as a guest). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • • This script is the most compact and probably the easiest to add on to later. Because it's space delimited and you can just put everything in the 'set LIST=( ' section of the script if you need to update it in the future.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For the extra paranoid, here's two more batch files to place within a directory where Adobe is installed. Running the batch will then use the built in Windows Firewall to block all executables in the folder and any executables in any subfolders.

There's probably a way to condense this into one script but I can't be pissed to figure that out right now. Incorrect on 0.0.0.0, but only partially. A true loop back adapter apparently didn't exist in Windows until Windows 8.1 was released. So if you're using 8.1 or newer, yes you can use it.

If not you should use 127.0.0.1 or install the loop back adapter manually. Also I updated my post to include script files which would post it to 0.0.0.0, which I wasn't planning on doing initially because this was just to provide general support, and not nuanced issues concerning operating systems so there's more people to help by answering comments. I may get around to finding a way in the script to change which one to use based on the operating system in use sometime later. From the old thread for win 10 users: defurious 6 points 1 year ago Use 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 as it avoids the slowdown issue with the TCP loopback interface that has existed since windows 8.1 so you don't have to wait for the connection to timeout. It also doesn't interfere with any thing else you might run on your machine like a web server. Make sure you add this as your first entry in your hosts file if you do use 0.0.0.0 to avoid causing confusion with certain network apps: Special Entries 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 # fix for traceroute and netstat display anomaly • • • •.