Then I’ll have to hold down Control– Option– Command to get it working again. I just assumed that some settings or preference file was corrupt, and that this was AI’s way of vomiting it up. Clicked its icon in the dock, and before I even got a glimpse of AI’s start screen or interface, I received this fun little error message: That morning, I decided to work on an ebook cover in Illustrator. Now I’m finally safe from hackers and whatever. Then I removed my current account’s administrative privileges. That said, I decided to take the “high road” and created a new admin account for installing software and modifying my system. I’m pretty lazy at times, and I hate having to make my computing experience more difficult than it needs to be. One of the ways to prevent this exploit is to create a user account without administrator privileges and use it instead of the default admin account. I’m personally leaning towards the hacker having to be physically on the Mac to do this. The article doesn’t say if this can be done remotely or not. Somehow, you can manipulate the OS into creating a shell account on a with root privileges. This started out with an article that I read on on how a white-hat hacker from Sweden had found a major vulnerability in the “Yosemite” version of Mac OS X. But it kept me from opening my copy of Illustrator on the iMac. Yesterday I got to experience something new today in Adobe Illustrator CC (2014).

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