I’ve noticed my machine to be slow lately and a lot of hard disk activity going on. My big concern now is that the installer may have installed trojans or other malware on my PC. He still insists that it is a legitimate copy. I gave the seller a chance to make good and provide me with a legitimate copy but of course that is not going to happen. To confirm my suspicions, I did a bit of research on the internet and discovered the tell tale signs are there. To see what would happen, I sent him the code and he emailed me back with the authorisation code which actually worked. He told me to proceed to phone activation but ‘no need to call Adobe’, just keep the window open, copy the activation number from the window and send it to him and he would send me the authorisation code. I contacted the seller and got an interesting response.
I tried it another time to make sure I had the number entered correctly but still no go.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS3 FOR PC SERIAL NUMBER
I entered the serial number that was printed on the back of the CD case but the activation failed.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS3 FOR PC INSTALL
The install appeared to go OK and I reached the activation stage. Although I was starting to get slightly suspicious, I was still hopeful that I had just got a great deal and eager to try out the software so I proceeded with the install. But I noticed that the quality of the print on the box was surprisingly poor for an expensive product from a big company such as Adobe. When it eventually arrived it looked like the real deal at first glance. The price was low – US$127.50 – but I put it down to it being an out of date version of Photoshop. I bought a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3 from a store called ‘The Violent Squirrel’ – (I’m purposely not linking to it). The products are professionally produced counterfeits complete with packaging that has been copied to look like the real thing. These online stores are actually listed on major shopping comparison sites such as.
I’m writing this blog to warn others about pirated software being sold in online stores as legitimate.
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