This annoyed me.Īs a UX developer, nothing irks me more than dark UX. I used the activity monitor and saw it was still running the Adobe Geniune task and force quit it. The popup didn't have a close button, and clicking 'learn more' didn't remove it. and yet the pop up persisted after I had deleted all Adobe products off my computer. Surely that should clear up the annoying pop-up? I removed all of the Adobe software on my computer and decided I'd reinstall Photoshop when I needed to again. I'm not sure what I did to trigger this, but I found others who had been somehow dragnetted as well.īeing busy and also currently using Pixelmator Pro with some moderate success, I opted for the nuclear option and found the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool. I have a legit copy from my company but had installed CC demos to open up Illustrator files from CC in the past, and they're legal. So recently, while using CS6, I was hit with a message from 'Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Service' that looked like the following.