Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed (www.osnews.com)

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[-] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Yeah from my intuition it sounds like this file serves as a makeshift firewall / proxy. Allowing software to override it kinda makes this weak and basically useless for a lot of purposes.

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