What is Fix for Macintosh Photoshop CS3 users: Adobe is spying

I have both Mac & PC's in my studio. Mostly use Mac for photo editing.
Please explain in steps.

Thanks,
Pat

you have to add: " 127.0.0.1 192.168.122.2o7.net " (without the quotes) to your /etc/hosts file.
so that your file looks something like this:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 192.168.122.2o7.net


Wim

Let me expand a bit on Wim's response. I caution that you are messing with the guts of the Mac OS when you tinker with the etc files, so exercise caution.

You will need a text editor and an administrator password to proceed. Something like BBEdit is ideal, but Apple's TextEdit will work in a pinch. The etc files are owned by Root, so you will be prompted for the Root or at least an Administrator-privileges password to do this.

Launch your text editing program. Do NOT use MS Word. At the top level of your directory, there is a (usually) invisible folder called etc. From the Open File dialog, open that folder and look for a file named Hosts. Open that file, providing the Administrator password as needed.

If you get the right file, its contents should look like this:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost

followed by a line of pound signs. Below the line "::1 localhost" add a line,

127.0.0.1 192.168.122.2o7.net

Note that is a lower case "o" in "2o7" and not a zero.

Save the modified file, providing the Administrator password as prompted.

Restart your computer (logging out may be sufficient, but I haven't tested it). Now go to Applications -> Utiilties -> Network Utility, and launch the application. Select the Ping tab (4th from left). Enter 192.168.122.2o7.net as the network address to Ping. Hit the Ping button. The response should be "64 bytes from 127.0.0.1," telling you that the call to 192.168.122.2o7.net has been harmlessly re-routed to local host (your computer).

You will need to check that your changes haven't been modified after every Software Update or System Software upgrade. You can't be sure that Apple has left the Hosts file alone.

Hope this helps.

I am sorry but I don't know how to access the host database file on my G4 Mac. I'm running Tiger.
Thanks,
Pat Warfield

The etc folder is "invisible" to the Mac regular operating system. You need a text editor that can see "invisible" files and folders. (A file or folder is "invisible" to the regular Mac OS if it starts with a period.) You can do it easily from Terminal, but I don't want to try to walk you through using a Unix text editor.

Maybe download a trial version of BBEdit from Bare Bones Software. It has a 30 day trial feature. From the file menu in BBEdit, select Open Hidden, and open [your hard disk name]-> etc -> hosts.

Thanks Reyns & Jim, I will work through this. Will this information be on a drive or within the CPU. I have 2 drives with OS & can start up from either although I use the master one mostly. Will I have to 'fix' both drives?
Pat

The active hosts file, unless you have set up an odd configuration, is the one on your boot volume. If you have two boot volumes, you probably have to modify both. You can test as I have described above.

I have BBEdit Vs 8.2.2 - a 2005 version. Would it be necessary to update - there is a fee for this version?
Pat

OK, I have the 'hosts' page up & ready to modify. Before I do this, does this set of code affect just Adobe or any Application provider who may want to check out 'ping' my computer? Can we still get update notices from Adobe. Frequently a window opens with instructions to update some Adobe product. Will my computer 'know' when it needs updates?

Thanks for all who contributed!
Pat Warfield

And the point of all this is???

Kelly, sorry to bore you, but I guess you hadn't been following the thread about blocking Adobe from spying on a Macintosh & PC, it is not an easy fix & can cause problems if not done right. There were steps for doing this on a PC, but not on a Mac. I am sure that more photographers than myself can make use of the instructions.
Pat

Pat, all this patch does is block outgoing traffic to 2o7.net. That's Omniture's site. It won't affect legitimate traffic, and won't affect "pinging" at all, except pings from your computer to Omniture.