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Blocking annoying Acrobat reader demo pdf downloads
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<blockquote data-quote="RRlight" data-source="post: 1086920" data-attributes="member: 112542"><p>Starting from 10th this month more or less, Adobe Acrobat Reader (probably, according to the file and link) has been trying to download 2 demo PDFs every day from its website through the links below. </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo.pdf[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo/verb-compress-pdf/demo-compressed-high.pdf[/URL]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]283384[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]283385[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The pdfs briefly:</p><p><img src="https://fj.kafan.cn/attachment/forum/202405/11/005948lm8yvupmkkyezvuj.png.thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://fj.kafan.cn/attachment/forum/202405/11/005933u3sk1zsxx3330ys7.png.thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Since I have Internet Download Manager, the links always toggle the IDM, then it pops out the download task window. This happens almost once every day, so quite annoying.</p><p></p><p>I tried to use hosts file, but the problem here is that:</p><p></p><p>If I use</p><p></p><p>[ICODE]127.0.0.1 acrobat.adobe.com[/ICODE]</p><p></p><p>it could block the files but it also blocks the official website for Acrobat.</p><p></p><p>If I use</p><p></p><p>[ICODE]127.0.0.1 acrobat.adobe.com/*</p><p>127.0.0.1 acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo.pdf</p><p>0.0.0.0 https://acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo.pdf</p><p>127.0.0.1 acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo/verb-compress-pdf/demo-compressed-high.pdf</p><p>0.0.0.0 https://acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo/verb-compress-pdf/demo-compressed-high.pdf[/ICODE]</p><p></p><p>it's not blocking anything.</p><p></p><p>Any way to block those files or download attempts but not Acrobat official website?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RRlight, post: 1086920, member: 112542"] Starting from 10th this month more or less, Adobe Acrobat Reader (probably, according to the file and link) has been trying to download 2 demo PDFs every day from its website through the links below. [URL unfurl="true"]https://acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo.pdf[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo/verb-compress-pdf/demo-compressed-high.pdf[/URL] [ATTACH type="full" width="484px"]283384[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" width="481px"]283385[/ATTACH] The pdfs briefly: [IMG]https://fj.kafan.cn/attachment/forum/202405/11/005948lm8yvupmkkyezvuj.png.thumb.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://fj.kafan.cn/attachment/forum/202405/11/005933u3sk1zsxx3330ys7.png.thumb.jpg[/IMG] Since I have Internet Download Manager, the links always toggle the IDM, then it pops out the download task window. This happens almost once every day, so quite annoying. I tried to use hosts file, but the problem here is that: If I use [ICODE]127.0.0.1 acrobat.adobe.com[/ICODE] it could block the files but it also blocks the official website for Acrobat. If I use [ICODE]127.0.0.1 acrobat.adobe.com/* 127.0.0.1 acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo.pdf 0.0.0.0 https://acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo.pdf 127.0.0.1 acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo/verb-compress-pdf/demo-compressed-high.pdf 0.0.0.0 https://acrobat.adobe.com/dc-home2-dropin/demo-files/en-US/demo/verb-compress-pdf/demo-compressed-high.pdf[/ICODE] it's not blocking anything. Any way to block those files or download attempts but not Acrobat official website? [/QUOTE]
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