#Bootleg photoshop for windows serial number#
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Read the user comments to my article : people have allegedly even been caught when buying from an Adobe approved dealer. It apparently suits Adobe that the only really safe place to buy is from their online store. eBay, Amazon, Paypal are all making a nice profit from the trade in fakes, and only act when pushed by those who have been robbed. However it appears nothing has happened and that nobody appears to give a stuff that thousands of people have been scammed of $millions. Adobe UK even took my fake CS2 вЂњfor investigationвЂќ after I got a prominent IT journalist involved. This over 2 years since I wrote and spoke to Adobe in UK and also their head of security in the USA.

#Bootleg photoshop for windows serial number#

The only way to tell for sure whether any Adobe s/w is legit is to phone Adobe and ask them whether the serial number is authentic.Д®Bay and Amazon continue to be awash with counterfeit copies of Adobe software, as are many independent software dealers. In fact the software is hacked to avoid the need, but it goes through the motions, connecting to a spoof site and doing God knows what. More updates soonвЂ¦Д¬ertainly some counterfeit copies do have fake activation built in. IвЂ™m working on analysing whatвЂ™s going on. I installed Process Monitor to have a look at whatвЂ™s going on and IвЂ™m seeing a lot of activity of the lighttpd process (a light-weight web-server) which keeps getting recreated after I kill it, so I suspect my machine has been compromised. IвЂ™ve noticed my machine to be slow lately and a lot of hard disk activity going on. My big concern now is that the installer may have installed trojans or other malware on my PC. He still insists that it is a legitimate copy. I gave the seller a chance to make good and provide me with a legitimate copy but of course that is not going to happen. To confirm my suspicions, I did a bit of research on the internet and discovered the tell tale signs are there.

#Bootleg photoshop for windows code#

To see what would happen, I sent him the code and he emailed me back with the authorisation code which actually worked. He told me to proceed to phone activation but вЂno need to call AdobeвЂ™, just keep the window open, copy the activation number from the window and send it to him and he would send me the authorisation code. I contacted the seller and got an interesting response. I tried it another time to make sure I had the number entered correctly but still no go.

I entered the serial number that was printed on the back of the CD case but the activation failed.

#Bootleg photoshop for windows install#

The install appeared to go OK and I reached the activation stage. Although I was starting to get slightly suspicious, I was still hopeful that I had just got a great deal and eager to try out the software so I proceeded with the install. But I noticed that the quality of the print on the box was surprisingly poor for an expensive product from a big company such as Adobe. When it eventually arrived it looked like the real deal at first glance. The price was low вЂ“ US$127.50 вЂ“ but I put it down to it being an out of date version of Photoshop. I bought a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3 from a store called вЂThe Violent SquirrelвЂ™ вЂ“ (IвЂ™m purposely not linking to it). The products are professionally produced counterfeits complete with packaging that has been copied to look like the real thing. These online stores are actually listed on major shopping comparison sites such as.

IвЂ™m writing this blog to warn others about pirated software being sold in online stores as legitimate.