3 Replies Latest reply: Jun 3, 2010 12:13 PM by Marian Driscoll RSS

    How to disable the updater?Ov

    John Smith for example Community Member

      Obviously, the Photoshop CS5 installer also installed an updater which runs and connects to the internet behind my back. I DO NOT WANT THIS!!! How can I disable this behaviour?

        • 1. Re: How to disable the updater?Ov
          John Joslin Community Member

          Open it up from Help and set it in preferences.

          • 2. Re: How to disable the updater?Ov
            John Smith for example Community Member

            Thanks. But, besides the fact that its interface breaks about every Apple interface guideline, this leaves me with the uncomfortable feeling that there remains an application running behind my back which is completely undocumented, from which I don't know what it does and from which I don't even know where it resides. (Such programs are usually called viruses…)

             

            So my question is: Where does this application reside, and how can I disable it completely, so it launches only when I explicitely want it to launch?

            • 3. Re: How to disable the updater?Ov
              Community Member

              I could answer this very easy question but 'John Smith for example' thinks I know nothing of Macs and should stop talking about them. 

               

              Anyone other than John Smith for example can either use the OS to block the process from starting or they can use a firewall to keep it from talking to a server. There are some tricks to do this in OSX or you can use third party helper apps.

               

              The only reason I have ever heard of someone wanting to disable an automatic updater is because the user thinks such a process will reveal to Adobe that they are using unlicensed software.