An infected computer uses around 5 times as much power as a normal one. The most expensive consequence is your CPU is running at near maximum while the computer is on, draining the battery on a laptop or using vast amounts of mains electricity. Of course, the crack is using your internet connection heavily and if you don't have unlimited broadband this will work out expensive. I'm told that some hackers make $80,000 a year doing this with as few as 20 bots in operation. This is why the most ubiquitous of the cracks passes your AV. Because nothing is being stolen or changed anti-virus software does not flag these cracks as dangerous. With Adobe cracks the most popular past time is cryptocurrency mining, which although harmless as it doesn't steal data, redirects the resources of the computer to increase the size of the hackers bitcoin wallet. The trouble is the crack will be doing something behind the scenes. Today cracks ,hacks and keygens are produced to make money and the creators rely on that human weakness 'Greed'- wanting something for nothing. The days of some enthusiastic hacker breaking into software just to prove it can be done are well and truly over. I might (somewhat ironically) suggest that the software should find a way to diagnose these driver issues and give more helpful guidance to the user when they occur.In case you don't know virtually every known crack for Adobe software contains malware. 80, but I figured all this out while on hold, so I didn't get a chance to talk to them. I also found out that there's an 800 number for support for Enterprise licenses to CC. Now I can go back to clicking random likely-looking icons to do my beginner's level editing of images. My driver mentioned above was rolled back to: 21. Learn How to Roll Back Your Driver to a Previous Version I googled that and found this simple step-by-step Intel article on "rolling back your display driver". I found an informational warning at the time that Photoshop crashed that said: "DllHost (9988,G,0) The beta feature EseDiskFlushConsistency is enabled in ESENT due to the beta site mode settings 0x800000." Sigh.įor MY situation, the solution was as follows.īased on a few random forum appends (among dozens I explored) was this hint for Crash reports in Photoshop CC 2018 on Windows 10 machines: Go to "Event Viewer" and look at Windows Logs -> Application. (And it would probably just make my eyes bleed anyway.)Īnd I was so happy with my creaky old CS 5.5 Photoshop on Windows 7 - You launch the program, open a file and start clicking semi-randomly on likely-looking controls to edit the image. I saw something on the Adobe site about finding (and gazing in befuddlement at) the Crash Report, but the file they mentioned doesn't exist. I called my company's help desk, but they are only able to send me to /support.html - and there doesn't seem to be any way on that site to contact a human at Adobe technical support unless I know my company's admin logon (fat chance - no one here even seems to know who our company Adobe "admin" IS). I don't understand a lot of the technical forum appends, but I was able to look at the PS Help->System Info and my graphics driver is apparently "Intel(R) HD Graphics 620" version 23. I ran the Lenovo hardware check as well (no issues). I ran Lenovo Vantage to check for driver updates on my new T470. I also uninstalled the 2018 version and installed the PS CC 2017 version many times with the same result. I have uninstalled it and re-installed it many times (sometimes removing the settings/profiles folder in between). (And, sadly - despite the hopeful promise in the crash report dialog - no one from Adobe has ever responded to my work email address with "work-arounds".) This also happens when I do File->New and click "Create" button. Whenever I do a File->Open on an image or PSD file, it crashes and sends a crash report. I used my company's App Store to download and install PS CC 2018 on my Windows 10 machine then I used PS Help->Updates to update the original version 19 to the latest version. I work for a wonderful big company and have enterprise Creative Cloud (but no access to the admin).