Post #2413685
2026-04-08 18:58 UTC
This is malware behaviour and I don't think calling it that is an exaggeration.
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@packetcat@tenforward.social 2026-04-08 19:41
I don't use any Adobe applications myself but somebody else on my home network does and I can tell you, Adobe app telemetry is very noisy. Adobe telemetry domains like the following are amongst the top blocked by my local pi-hole installation which is using the OISD big list: adobecorp.data.adobedc.net aepxlg.adobe.com hbrt.adobe.com So this kind of behaviour is to be expected from Adobe but modifying the local hosts file is a new low, even for them.
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@nivex@tenforward.social 2026-04-08 19:13
@packetcat@tenforward.social This is why I cringe every time one of my streamer friends says "Oh, it's not working, let me run it as Administrator." No user-level app should even have write access to that file.