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Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app

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Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app

Adobe’s latest Creative Cloud update is editing system hosts files behind the scenes. It’s not stealing data, but it needs admin rights and has corporate security tools lighting up. Full details here.

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This is what some viruses and malware do as well.
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  Some other viruses amd malware.

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