Good Man wrote:

> Erica Eshoo <evesunflor@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
> news:hK%Xi.2583$RR6.593@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net :
>
>
>> So, the problem is how to RECONFIGURE ACROBAT so that it stops
>> connecting to the mother ship without stopping connections that you
>> actually want it to make to a desired web page.
>>
>> Is there any option in Adobe Acrobat (the writer, not the reader) that
>> will tell it to stop connecting to the mother ship at Adobe upon every
>> use?
>
> No, but as mentioned, use a firewall with specific rule definitions... ie:
> don't allow Acrobat to connect to the 'mothership' IP address, but all
> other IPs are fine.


Filtering by application? Sounds like you're suggesting to use the typical
"personal firewall" scam.

An any rate, it doesn't work since the Adobe License Manager Service uses
the Raw Sockets API to simply circumvent it (which I think is legitimate).