John Corliss wrote:


>> How do I stop Adobe Acrobat 7 from constantly phoning home?
>
> Install a software firewall and rig it to block Adobe Reader from
> calling out.


LOL. Not just that you're trying to treat the symptoms instead of solving
the problem (configuring the application correctly), we're talking about
Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Reader. Adobe Acrobat's License Managing Service
uses Raw Sockets to easily bypass any NDIS layer packet filter, which from
its perspective is an annoyance anyway since only stupid users would try
stopping a privileged service from accessing network resources since it's
futile by design.

> That's what I do. There are several freeware firewalls out
> there. Perhaps you might want to look at here:
>
> http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/se...wfirewall.html

Aside from the fact that none of the mentioned software products could ever
implement a firewall, where exactly on this website is stated that these
software products are known broken and highly vulnerable implementations
which actually introduce new security vulnerabilities?