Hello,

This problem is becoming bigger and more seen now. It's basically when you disable the service "FLEXnet", your adobe problem will stop working.

I had this problem earlier and searched the keywords of the error message on a search engine and came up with this, it's basically a fix as download for one of the issues and a fix using services.msc

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405970.html

Just thought I would post this for anyone who has this as an issue, so you can fix it and start using the adobe products again.

Regards,
George, Firewire Security Super Moderator & Blog Poster.