That's bad news indeed. Let's hope a solution is found or else people are screwed for good xD.
So I finally got around to checking things out and what do you know the cracked install still leaves a number of Adobe updater services running! Mine is "Adobe Master Collection v9 EN-RU August 2020 Preactivated [TeamOS]". I assume this has been fixed in newer releases. But here are the steps I took and so far MC2020 is back up and running. Caveat: early days so can't guarantee this will be a permanent fix, just wanted to post it here before I get busy with other things.
Disable the following:
- Adobe Update Service
- Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Service
- Adobe Genuine Software Monitor Service
Add ".disable" to the end of these folders
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\ARM
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AdobeGCClient
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AAMUpdaterInventory
Hope it works for others.
And yeah the whole Digital ID/AI thing is a concern. Cash is disappearing, surveillance is off the hook; seems like they're determined to create their technocractic NWO scenario.