Adobe Creative Cloud has seemingly been rewriting users’ hosts files on its own. The change adds three lines that route detect-ccd.creativecloud.adobe.com to the IP 166.117.29.222. It wraps them neatly between “Adobe Creative Cloud WAM” comment markers. From what I was able to piece together, the whole point is to let Adobe know whether the desktop app is installed on your machine. When you hit adobe.com/home, their JavaScript quietly tries loading a tiny image from that exact domain. Hosts entr...