Thread: Adobe Master Collection working fine for a few months but now asking for serial

Not sure why it's doing this so I'm trying to find out why and solve the problem.



It (CS 5.5 Master Collection) has been working for me for about 2-3 months. No problem whatsoever but tonight when I fired up photoshop it had said the license I had was expired and it gives me an option where I can put in a new serial or start a 30 day trial.
Please help, I heavily depend on these software and need to find out how I can fix this problem.

I've tried these:
Mod Edit: Please don't link to copyrighted material.
But still no luck.

did you change the hosts file by chance?

I probably did few weeks ago when i first installed the master collection. This is my C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\host file

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host


# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com

Since its pointing to localhost I'm guessing I've changed it, or I used a crack that patched it