adobe.activate.com

Hi all, even after i uninstalled adobe photoshop cs4 and all its components, i still have like 20 connections opened to adobe.activate.com.

I have now blocked them all by redirecting them in the host file to 127.0.0.1 and also blocked them with my firewall.

Can anyone tell me how to find out which program is opnening this connections so i can finally remove it? Before uninstalling adobe cs4 i had like 50 connections openened to adobe.activate.com all the time.

I have added screenshots to show what i mean (while doing this screen i realised that i have again ~50 connection opened to adobe.activate.com).
Index of /stuff/ps

thanks

 

Look for any services in MSCONFIG related to Adobe and disable them. Also, search your registry for any Adobe entries and remove them.

 

did a registry cleanup with ccleaner
no services or process related to adobe in msconfig :/

 

The simple answer would be not to worry about it.

And on a side note you possibly still have the Adobe Reader, Air, Flash etc.
Why worry about it?

 

no i only got the adobe flash player left.

i worry because i have around 50 connections in the backround.. closing opening and trying to connect. all the time. its not one connection which trys to connect somewhere.. and its not once when i boot.. its all the time. everytime i press re-fresh in "currports" it shows new openend connections of activate.adobe.com

i added some more screenshots. it looks liek these connections are comming for firefox?

check the "kasp" pictures please:
Index of /stuff/ps

no adobe reader, no air, no bridge.. only flash player installed.

 

look at the process path - problem solved?

 

no not at all ? what should get solved by watching the process path and seeing firefox.exe ?

as said in my reply above.. i think it comes from firefox.. but why? why would firefox.exe want to connect to activate.adobe.com ? and why 50 times.. and why is it trying to connect every 5 seconds with 20 new connections? and how can i disable that crap

 

Try getting rid of flash then
I'm pretty sure there is a simple answer and you are being paranoid.

 

i´m not scared about that connection.. i blocked it anyway by redirecting in the host file to 127.0.0.1

i just dont want spam myself with opening connections all the time ?
there isnt anything which openes even half as many connections.. and also not the whole time.

 

the question is, does it matter.

And generally it doesn't.

 

cant belive that closing and opening 50 connections every 2-5 seconds isnt using ressources on the system?

 

Not a lot.

 

still i want to get rid of it or find out why i have so many connections of it.. normally it is 1 or 2.. and actualyl this shouldnt come with adobe flash player.. only with stuff like photoshop. also then: only 1 conenction, when photoshop is getting started :/

 

Gods, I hate adobe...

I would also be annoyed by something like this. I've spent quite a bit of
time myself preventing adobe programs from calling home all the time. I've
created 'quarantine' folders in the adobe program folders to which I move
the parts that constantly access the internet. Disabling them in services
wasn't enough. Google and Sun's java are also a pain in the rear.

Unfortunately I can't help with the situation described here.

 

Have you checked the firefox extension/plugins? I recall seeing Adobe DLM and other stuff in there before I switched to Chrome.

 

firefox will do that for whatever is first in your hosts file. try putting
127.0.0.1 first.line.in.hosts

above the activate.adobe.com line and you'll see that as the connection instead.
- edit -
first 127.0.0.1 entry in hosts file, which is just a connection to yourself. it's probably just seeing that network stuff is working, nothing wrong with your computer talking to itself.

 

i think its poor practice on adobes part. saying it doesnt matter when its using resources is not good. thats like saying np we have alot of ram. lets just waste it. we can afford to leak a few. rather then fix it. i dont haave anything adobe not even reader (i use fox it reader). so hopefully this isnt happening to me. that would royally me off. i would seriously end up reformatting it would bother me that much

 

it's nothing to do with adobe, or firefox really, this finally clicked into place in my brain.

if you have a 127.0.0.1 entry in your HOSTS file then that name is going to be listed for anything connecting to 127.0.0.1, check in your monitoring software ( resource monitor in win7). 127.0.0.1 is a special address that means 'this computer', it doesn't go anywhere on the internet. programs will use it to connect to themselves and that's not fishy or a security risk, it never leaves home. you can see that by trying what i suggested above and that'll show up for most any networky software one uses.

on mine, chrome, firefox, my antivirus and dropbox all have a connection to 127.0.0.1 that shows up as 'first.line.in.hosts'