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Adobe CS3 may disable your firewall

by Mat Lu May 22nd 2007 at 9:30AM



This is ridiculous. Apparently, part of Adobe's Creative Suite 3 (the Adobe Version Cue CS3 Server) requires the Mac firewall to be shut down in order to install correctly. The Adobe installer obligingly shuts your firewall off, but then neglects to restart it afterwards. Adobe has 'fessed up to the problem (as a "critical issue") and suggests manually starting your firewall. So the long and the short of it is this: if you've installed CS3 you need to check to make sure that your firewall is still running. Go the Firewall tab of the Sharing Preference Pane, and if it's not running, click "Start." Adobe is already on thin ice as far as I concerned with their insanely annoying installers, and now this firewall problem is just plain bad.

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Kay

hey, I just got my MacBookPro..and i've never owned my own mac before... Does Mac have its own Anti-virus in it when you get it? The tech guy told me there aren't any virus' made for macs...but i feel a little iffy about it still...

August 11 2007 at 8:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Catt

I have no clue why this thing shuts down your firewall all I know is that it took forever just to install some shared components then quit prematurely before installing any of the programs. Apparently, my first gen Mac Mini did not make the hardware requirement. I'll be sticking with DW 8 & FW 8 until I can upgrade my Mini which won't be until Fall sometime. Even then I'm not sure I want to upgrade. Why did Macromedia have to get swallowed up by Adobe Why?

May 26 2007 at 6:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
raminf

@boxgamex and @Johnny Thrash wonder what's the big deal about turning off the firewall.

For those people who have laptops and use WiFi at schools, libaries, or coffee shops, it's a HUGE deal. Without knowing it, their machines have been open and vulnerable to anyone with a basic sniffer and port-scanner (like iStumbler or Eavesdrop).

This means anyone running file and media sharing, Rendezvous, web sharing, or Apple remote desktop is going around unprotected and not knowing it.

Very, very uncool of Adobe.

May 26 2007 at 4:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sjmills

Holy cripes. Could it be that Adobe is trying to become another Microsoft? First the stupid icons and boring splash/about windows in CS3, now this.

May 23 2007 at 11:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Geoff Wright

My firewall was off too. But its cool, I'm not a nuclear scientist, nothing to 'pwn' here!

May 23 2007 at 4:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ToupsWinker

CS2 4 life, or until CS3 has a keygen!

May 22 2007 at 6:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter Andrén

Still got Version Cue CS2 in my System Preference under Sharing -> Firewall and I cant seem to get ride of it either.

May 22 2007 at 1:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
maRRRk

I installed CS3 and it didn't turn off my firewall.

I didn't install Version Cue though, maybe that was the culprit?

May 22 2007 at 12:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Johnny Thrash

I don't understand why people use a software firewall anyway. So it doesn't bother me at all.

May 22 2007 at 11:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ken Addison

Oh come on. this isnt that serious, just use a freaking NAT router as your firewall and you are good. I dont even have the os x firewall on.

May 22 2007 at 11:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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