I am having an issue, i recently downloaded an app called little snitch to block connections to servers for personal use. Never the less i decided to delete the application because it got annoying and i found no use for it. I used App Zapper to delete it but after doing so, i noticed the app's UI agent was still operating in my process'. It still asks me for permission to connect with certain programs like Safari, google, and even the software updater. Why is this when i thought i deleted the app? I also tried searching my mac to find the UI agent in my files but its no where to be found, perhaps its hidden?

The built-in Mac OS X firewall provides the ability to block incoming connections, but it doesn't provide a transparent way to block outgoing connections. Nov 30, 2008 Objective Development Forums. Skip to content. Posters here want to use LS to block the connections so they can. I am a Little Snitch customer and an Adobe.

I want it totally off my computer is there a way? I also made sure i restarted my mac after deleting Little Snitch just to make sure it was no longer in my process' yet its still active I also attached a picture below of my process window if that helps. Any ideas guys? Much appreciated.

Applications: Macintosh: English FYI: This is for the Mac. Please keep WIndows discussions off his thread. Do not post serials on this thread, they are made public and will be blacklisted. Completely rewritten, user interface guided script to keep your Adobe CS4 & CS5 installs safe. The script is very quick and simple to run and customizable for those that want to tinker. This torrent also includes the CS5 Master Collection serials. Just remember to install as a trial!

Only enter the serial when you first run any app. Please take the time to read the FAQ below before asking questions: The serial doesn't work!

Did you install as a trial? Can I have both CS4 & CS5 installed? Can I only install specific apps from the suite? Do I need this?

What if I already blocked Adobe before? The script will reset your hosts file with the proper Adobe servers. Everyone (including people who have blocked Adobe before) stands to benefit from a clean, properly edited hosts file. If you need to preserve extra entries, you can do that too, the script is flexible. Are there any to block since CS4?

Nope, the list is the same. See the list at the bottom of this FAQ. Hold on, your thing only covers 15 servers. I've seen lists with way more servers!

Yes there are bigger lists out there. They will prevent you from being able to get updates, use Adobe Live, get additional content or get additional help or visit Adobe community forums. These are all safe things to do and won't invalidate your serial. But I use Little Snitch / firewall / some other app. Do I really need to patch the hosts file? Adobe uses Flexnet to do it's dirty work under the root account so we have to add the addresses to our hosts file which will do a system wide address block permanently. Little snitch can catch other things (like loading help files) and you're free to block it, but it's nothing that would invalidate your serial.

What is this compatible with? From CS4 onwards, Adobe uses its sneaky method to check for serials.

So if you're running any CS4 or CS5 app, you need this script. I don't trust you, let me see the code for this thing. Just drop the app into the Applescript Editor (in your Utilities folder). You can peruse all you want, the code is pretty thoroughly commented so it's easy to understand.

You can run it from the editor if you choose. Is it safe to update my apps? Little Snitch reports outgoing connections/connecting to verisign! You are safe.

Any calls that Adobe makes is to do harmless things. All their activation servers are blocked by the script. Verisign is used to connect to Adobe Live. Block if you like, but it isn't making you safer, just preventing you from doing things. Are you sure? What if Adobe add more activation servers?

They haven't added anything since CS4. If you want to check, follow the Apple help web page how to check to see if the URL you suspect is being used when you launch a CS5 program using the TCDUMP command with Terminal I have a problem with my installation (missing files, configuration errors, etc) Try the uninstaller that was left behind from previous Adobe installs in the /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers/ folder. If that doesn't help, try Adobe's: Can I edit the hosts file the script uses? I want to add more stuff.

As long as you understand that all the necessary servers are already included, sure, just right click on the app, choose Show Package Contents and navigate to the Contents folder and double-click on the file hosts-patched. Thanks for the script but I wanna do this manually. Open Terminal and paste in sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts (Hit return and type in your admin password).

In TextEdit add these new lines into the HOSTS file: 127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 hl2rcv.adobe.com and save it. Open Terminal again and paste in sudo dscacheutil -flushcache (Hit return and type in your admin password, if asked again).

Windows Firewall ships with Windows 7 and while it does not notify you every single time a program tries to establish an outbound connection, it does give you the ability to block any and all outbound calls by any program on your system. You may be asking yourself why you would want to block outgoing calls from your PC to another PC. Well there are a few reasons.

First, the naughty reason. If you are a person who uses pirated software, you may find that your software gets disabled whenever you have your LAN or Wireless Internet up and running on your computer. Often, applications call back to their creators for validation. This means that while you may install that wonderfully pirated version of some Adobe software on your PC, as soon as the software runs and calls back to Adobe it can be disabled.

While I'm not advocating software piracy, I also don't advocate my PC doing things I didn't tell it to do like make outbound calls. Windows Firewall takes care of that.

Windows Firewall makes it easy to block any outgoing call to any computer. Now it isn't as nice as Little Snitch because it doesn't notify you directly when a program tries to call out, however, it does offer you the ability to log the calls so that you can see which programs tried to make a connection and it does offer you the ability to block those calls beforehand. The second reason for blocking outbound connections from your PC may not be as obvious as the first. If your computer is ever infected by a virus which causes it to make outbound calls, you can stop those messages from going out using Windows Firewall. Of course you would first need to realize that your computer is sending out messages, but that is another post. Windows Firewall manages your inbound connections to, so you can stop certain computers or certain companies from automatically doing things on your computer.

For instance, if you often visit Adobe's website, you may find that Adobe automatically tries to communicate with your computer. Windows Firewall can automatically block these types of inbound connections for you.

Once in the Control Panel, you might need to go to small icon view in Windows 7. For some reason, Microsoft loves to change the interface of the Control Panel area when they update Windows. This time they removed the ability to just see things in the old Detail view. I don't know why they feel the need to do this, but I really wish they would stop.

I am not an icon person. I need clear words that outline everything in a particular area. Warriors Orochi 3 Keygen Generator Adobe.

That initial view had me sitting around looking at the Control Panel wondering where everything was. Microsoft, I love you dearly, but if you don't stop grouping things in ways that long time users can't understand, I'm going to have to sue you or something (I will probably take the or something route - but don't tell them that!). Anyway, switch the view using the little arrow in the upper right hand corner to small icon view and select Windows Firewall. You will need to be an administrator on your machine to alter the outbound connections. Anonymous said. Hi!I access my pc a lot from remote desktop from my mac.

My router has logged a couple of other ip addresses that I don't know accessing the same pc through the same port 3389. My computer hasn't been messed with that I can tell, but these strange accesses are daily. I use secure rdp connection, changed password while port was blocked by router, and still these strange ip addresses are logged as accessing my pc through port 3389. Does this mean that maybe somebody is tryinh to guess my password? I tried to access windows firewall log through control panel link and I don't get any logs.