Adobe spyware running after deinstallation

I ran into a similar issue after uninstalling Adobe—some background processes just wouldn’t go away. Try opening Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) and look for any Adobe-related processes still running. End them manually, then try deleting the folder. If that doesn’t work, boot into Safe Mode and delete it from there. You can also use Autoruns from Microsoft to check  if anything Adobe-related is still set to launch at startup. Hope this helps!

Just because you can't delete it doesn't make it spyware. It probably means there's still a background process that wasn't removed. How did you completely uninstall Adobe? Do you still have Acrobat Reader or something else Adobe that's not necessarily one of the Creative Cloud apps running? You can open your Task Manager to look at processes to see what's running. Also, if you didn't restart your computer after uninstalling, give that a whirl.