Photoshop Experts - Is this a fake copy?

[liannef]

Thanks, I don't think I did run it but just incase, can you suggest a rootkit detector please as I don't want to be downloading anymore viruses! I looked at the cloud thing but doesn't work with Vista so looked for one on ebay. Only wanted to use it to put designs on mugs with the action script as I already have coreldraw.

[daviddeer]

I wouldn't necessarily agree with this. It looks like a crack alright, but they aren't necessarily keyloggers. but if it was a dodgy file, it looks as though the virus scanner caught it. A full virus scan, or a scan with malwarebytes should get rid of anything dodgy, or at least tell you if something is present.

Best of luck!!!

You could try this tutorial using google sketchup

[wayupnorth]

If you just need to run scripts then CS2 may be good enough and is still available for free. Software & codes provided here:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=cs2_downloads

[enabled]

It is more than likely a file that adjust the HOSTS file on your system, which will block adobe making a connection to their license server. See this directory to find your HOSTS file and open it with notepad... you might see it has altered that file

[PrinTnTech]

It is more than likely a file that adjust the HOSTS file on your system, which will block adobe making a connection to their license server. See this directory to find your HOSTS file and open it with notepad... you might see it has altered that file

Seconded

This is the norm for activation patches for adobe products, it attempts to write to the windows host file that resides in 'C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc' and redirects anything trying to access adobe back to the local machine. whenever i get an infected computer to clean for customers this file is always checked as you would be supprised what goes on in there.

Heres a typical patched host file


[ATTACH=CONFIG]2973[/ATTACH]

this is now telling your computer that if anything tries to contact adobe.activate.com then redirect to 127.0.0.1 which is your local computer.

[kashif86]

Totally Agreed with @PrinTnTech