Benutzer sagen, Adobe Creative Cloud habe die Hosts-Datei neu geschrieben, um die installierte App zu erkennen

Given that it’s Adobe, it doesn’t surprise me in the least that that would be something they’d try to pull off.

I’ll stick with my pirated CS6 in a virtual machine.

If an app is writing to hosts file in my environment it’s malware. That file only gets written to for specific, deliberate, and documented reasons.

Why do they even need to do it through the hosts file lmao. It feels so ineffective. Also, pirates can just do the blocking at a DNS level.

What’s with all the logos with the blended colour backgrounds that look like they’ve been made in Microsoft Word? Instagram, Sky TV and more that I’m probably forgetting.

Is this what the past decade will be known for like the 90s were remembered for teal and purple?

Friendly reminder to learn GIMP and not Photoshop 🙂

For anyone who may be reading this and want an alternative to the Adobe software they are using, Affinity is a free replacement for photoshop, Illistrator and what ever Adobe calls its publishing software.

Affinity does have a subscription for a few of their „AI“ features such as generative fill and such which don’t use local models.

Davinci Resolve is a free alternative for adobe’s video editor that I can’t remember the name of atm and also after effects I believe?

There is also a paid version but the free version is quite good.

If an app asks to be installed by someone with Admin rights then you have to assume it’s going to do something like this.

To anyone who uses or used this software and is now looking for or even just thinking of switching to an alternative, here’s a list of them: https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-creative-suite/

If you want to just look for alternative to the individual app’s peace mail follow the following 3 steps:

* see https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-creative-suite/about/
* scroll down to the „What is Adobe Creative Cloud?“ part of the page and click the name of the app you want to replace
* (not strictly necessary) add filters to help shrink the size of the list / filter out alternatives you may not want / may conflict with what you need.

then you just need to look threw the list of alternatives to that app…

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*[For example: here’s a list of open source ^(making it hard for the maker of the app to slip something shady into the app since the code is open sourced) Illustrator alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-illustrator/?license=opensource ]*

I legit don’t understand why adobe has to be this way. They have a legit good product lots of people want to use. Instead they have to make using their products feel like they are shouting “we are evil and hate you” at every moment

Saw this on some of the systems I help manage, too….

I just uninstalled the cloud yesterday after my subscription lapsed. it was IMPOSSIBLE to fully remove. Creative Cloud requires all current and past versions of Adobe apps to be uninstalled, and sometimes leftover files will “trick” the app into thinking it still exists – rejecting the uninstall process. My pain:

1. Manually uninstall all adobe apps including Acrobat (so stupid that it requires the cloud).
2. Manually search all folders labeled “Adobe” for leftover files from Adobe apps – delete them.
3. Scour the registry for leftover Adobe app registry files (the uninstall leaves some behind).
4. Open the Task Manager and play Whack-A-Mole to shut down all the restarting creative cloud processes.
5. Finally give up on the Adobe uninstall process because Creative Cloud SWEARS up and down theres still apps that need it on my PC.
6. Delete every Adobe reference by hard drive search. Nuke CC install directory. Delete all Adobe registry entries.

FINALLY IT STOPPED FCKN STARTING THE CREATIVE CLOUD. IM FREE

Guess it is time to add detect-ccd.creativecloud.adobe.com to the deny list.