Adobe Update Block Host File

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. Block Adobe Photoshop CC activation outbound link using windows host file or firewall is a common question for everyone.

Your echo command isn't right (keystroke would be a System Events command if it wasn't in a text string), but you should be seeing the incorrect text in the hosts file. The statement should be more like

• Obviously I patched the hosts file, and on check it says 'Hosts file set to block Adobe activation', but no matter what I do afterwards it seems to ignore the hosts file. Flushed DNS, rebooted twice, stopped DNS cache service, nothing works, its always 'Hosts file is not blocking Adobe activation'.
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... but really all you need to do is use a text editor that is designed for these kinds of things, such as TextWrangler or BBedit. Either of those can navigate to the hidden folders and edit the file directly, including admin authentication.

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Dec 23, 2012 1:04 PM