Photoshop CS2 for FREE

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #1 08-01-2013, 02:06 AM

Yes, Adobe are giving away Photoshop CS2 for free.
All you need to do is create an account with them, then download it.
They have the serial numbers next to each download link.
Totally legit!!!

This is a great boon to those starting out in astro imaging.

Thanks to Nick Howes for the heads up on this.

Oh, there is a lot of traffic on the site right now, so be patient.
This is the direct link to the download site.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitl...=cs2_downloads

pmrid (Peter) · #2 08-01-2013, 02:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Yes, Adobe are giving away Photoshop CS2 for free.
All you need to do is create an account with them, then download it.
They have the serial numbers next to each download link.
Totally legit!!!

This is a great boon to those starting out in astro imaging.

Thanks to Nick Howes for the heads up on this.

Oh, there is a lot of traffic on the site right now, so be patient.

http://fstoppers.com/have-an-older-c...mium-plus-free

DON'T DO IT.

I just went there and despite having good anti-virus running landed a Trojan that has locked up my main machine.

Peter

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #3 08-01-2013, 02:33 AM

I downloaded with no troubles, and I know of at least 4 others who have done the same.
I'll let them know.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #4 08-01-2013, 02:38 AM

Nick works in security testing, and none of his scanners picked anything up. He knows of 30 people who have downloaded this with no problems.
Adobe wouldn't allow a virus infected copy of their software be released to the public.
I'll change the link to avoid the first website.

Barrykgerdes · #5 08-01-2013, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by pmrid

DON'T DO IT.

I just went there and despite having good anti-virus running landed a Trojan that has locked up my main machine.

Peter

You probably use malware bytes. This anti virus catches a couple of non viruses I believe are caused by some compression programs creating a byte sequence that looks like a virus. One such program is part of MinGW.

Barry

JB80 (Jarrod) · #6 08-01-2013, 08:06 AM

Aparantly there was a trojan in the files but if you already had a registered adobe account you were fine.
The link was taken down presumably to fix the issue.

pixelsaurus (Mike) · #7 08-01-2013, 08:19 AM

DIYPhotography reports that the download was an error by Adobe. More details http://diyphotography.net/download-adobe-cs2-for-free

pmrid (Peter) · #8 08-01-2013, 08:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes

You probably use malware bytes. This anti virus catches a couple of non viruses I believe are caused by some compression programs creating a byte sequence that looks like a virus. One such program is part of MinGW.

Barry

No. I was using the full AVG suite.
The Trojan presented as if it was an anti-virus product and kept popping up saying you're infected and wanting me to follow a link for a solution. I had a similar thing 3 or 4 years back. It actually disabled AVG. I had no choice but to do a full recovery -total wipe and rebuild and bye bye data, files, astro photos, kids and krandkids - the lot.
Now where did I put that backup???

Peter

04Stefan07 (Stefan) · #9 08-01-2013, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by pixelsaurus

DIYPhotography reports that the download was an error by Adobe. More details http://diyphotography.net/download-adobe-cs2-for-free

Correct the link is now dead.

Wow that was like the big mistake Harvey Norman made around Xmas time. There was an Acer or Asus tablet going for $121. i5 processor, Windows 8, came with a keyboard all valued at $800.

People on OzBargain went nuts and heaps were bought but I don't think Harvey Norman honoured the price because it was a mistake.

Barrykgerdes · #10 08-01-2013, 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pmrid

No. I was using the full AVG suite.
The Trojan presented as if it was an anti-virus product and kept popping up saying you're infected and wanting me to follow a link for a solution. I had a similar thing 3 or 4 years back. It actually disabled AVG. I had no choice but to do a full recovery -total wipe and rebuild and bye bye data, files, astro photos, kids and krandkids - the lot.
Now where did I put that backup???

Peter

Hi Peter
That was just a thought. There is a program that comes as part of MinGW named elfedit.exe. There are two formats one has 1.05MB and one that has around .65MB. Malwarebytes won't let you even look at one (I think it is the smaller version). Both these files have been examined by AVG, Macafee and Norton but they cannot find any problem.

I have seen those "scam" programs a couple of times and seen people get caught with them. There is a way to get rid of them. I googled and found the procedure. Once you try to clear it you get caught in the cycle that erases your recovery files and wants you to buy a product.

I keep an image of my main drive, updated and use a separate drive for data files that "must not be lost" This gets around most of the troubles.

Barry

mr bruess · #11 08-01-2013, 09:51 AM

Here is the direct downlaod link for photoshop cs2 http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/...S2_English.exe

04Stefan07 (Stefan) · #12 08-01-2013, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by mr bruess

Here is the direct downlaod link for photoshop cs2 http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/...S2_English.exe

Thanks!

asimov (John) · #13 08-01-2013, 10:08 AM

Nope. Won't be going anywhere near this

04Stefan07 (Stefan) · #14 08-01-2013, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pmrid

No. I was using the full AVG suite.
The Trojan presented as if it was an anti-virus product and kept popping up saying you're infected and wanting me to follow a link for a solution. I had a similar thing 3 or 4 years back. It actually disabled AVG. I had no choice but to do a full recovery -total wipe and rebuild and bye bye data, files, astro photos, kids and krandkids - the lot.
Now where did I put that backup???

Peter

I have had a bad experience with AVG. I someone got a virus through Firefox and it ate up my boot file and after doing an AVG scan it didn't detect anything. My PC would not boot after that so I had to re install Windows 7 and went with Avast and love it. Avast is much better and isn't such a resource killer like AVG. This is also when I made the switch to Chrome and still using it to this very day.

No problems with Avast and Chrome

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #15 08-01-2013, 10:50 AM

http://diyphotography.net/download-adobe-cs2-for-free

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #16 08-01-2013, 10:51 AM

280,000 downloads, before they shut the server down.

There's a lot of happy people out there atm. LOL

big_dav_2001 (Davin) · #17 08-01-2013, 12:56 PM

Looks like the server's back up... I just got CS2, Acrobat 7 and PSE 5 all for nothing

Davin

LewisM · #18 08-01-2013, 01:04 PM

Geez, PS2 has been available gratis for YEARS. PS 5 for a couple years, and PS6 a little while

Octane (Humayun) · #19 08-01-2013, 03:24 PM

"There has been clarification since this story broke. Adobe has not released the CS2 software for free. Instead, it has cancelled its CS2 license management servers, so for those with existing licenses it is now offering downloads that do not require contact with the licensing servers. This service is only going to be available for those with existing Adobe CS2 licenses, which will be verified when creating the Adobe account to download the software."

It's outdated software, anyway.

H

Astro_Bot · #20 08-01-2013, 03:34 PM

Why not use the GIMP? It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac, and it has always been completely free/open source.