You will need to create a Windows Firewall rule. Go to Control Panel - All Control Panel Items - Windows Firewall. Click Advanced settings on the right-hand side, click Outbound rules on the left-hand side, then click New Rule on the right.On the next window, make sure you have Program selected and click Next. Select the button for This program path: and click Browse.
For retail and volume licenses, the Adobe Application Manager (AAM) displays the short code for an activation request. Users log in to the Adobe website with an Adobe ID and enter the serial number and request code. After validation, the activation service displays a response code. The user enters the code in the AAM screen. May 16, 2014 - on: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to. A crack for CC, just to block Adobe's activation servers in your hosts after installing.
From here, you'll need to navigate to the.EXE file for Illustrator. It'll be under C:Program Files (x86) (w/o the x86 if you're not running 64-bit Windows) and possibly within the Adobe sub-folder.Once you've found the.EXE file, click Next, Block the connection, apply it to Domain/Private/Public networks, give it a name, and click Finish.