Is there any way around this?

I just buy After Effects CS5. I also bought a new Mac to run it. So far so good.

Now, this new Mac is not will not be connected to the internet. I have another computer, (the latter, a PC), that I use for all my activities on the internet. It's my "sacrificial" computer, and I had to wipe and reinstall its content several times over the years, due to the viral and other attacks. I don't want to expose my new Mac than.

So, before you install the software on my new Mac, I thought I just check and make sure that I would be able to activate the programme through this PC, even if the software is actually installed on the other computer, the Mac. I was able to do this when I bought Elements7 first and Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. In fact, I installed these programs on a PC that is not connected to the Net, copied the number that has been generated on this computer, when it has been installed and came back to this computer and concluded that the number of activation of the Adobe site page. This has generated an activation key, then I went back to the other PC and entered. This active process my software. Yes, it was a bit of going and coming, but much better to put my expensive dedicated graphics computer in danger by putting it online in the minefield that is the Internet.

But now I find that I don't have this option with After Effects CS5. Apparently, I have to set up an internet connection on my Mac, exposed to all the dangers of the internet, just so that I can activate my (very expensive) After Effects. As I understand it, there is no option for activation via another computer.

What it seems to boil down to is that Adobe, customers must put their computers at risk , to protect Adobe from the possibility of piracy. And I do not accept the argument that Macs are 'safer' or more course on the Net. Maybe fewer viruses, but of course there would be as much adware and spyware and God-knows-what that will eventually infect a Mac. Why customers who buy expensive products Adobe should be forced to run that risk?

Of course, I can temporarily set up my new Mac on my home network and then disable permanently the connection as soon as I activated my software, but what happens if I pick up a bunch of garbage of the Internet in the process? To protect your computer during this period, I have to install another copy of virus protection, and that means paying for it, because my Norton has already used up to its limit of installation. So it's the extra expense and exposure to risk.

Well, question desperate - y at - it an option under any circumstances to an owner legitimate a legitimate CS5 copy to activate it without the very real possibility of corrupting a computer brand new?

Thank you.

As far as I know - not. so you will have to swallow the pill. However, no offense, I think you overstate your case. I certainly do not believe in the myth of the impenetrable Mac, but most of the vulnerabilities are not in the kernel, but instead of Safari, iTunes etc... So none of them are involved, open a few HTTP ports for activation is a minor thing and "current affairs". You can even restrict it so it only connects to the Adobe servers, so IMO it's really not a big deal.

Mylenium

Tags: After Effects

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