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Teknobubba
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March 19, 2011
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AIR installs BEFORE agreeing to License terms

  • March 19, 2011
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I downloaded a demo from Steam, and when I ran it, AIR's license screen came up.  I did not like the terms, and hit "quit" but the program had already been installed on my hard drive.  No problem to uninstall, I just feel that was a bit over zealous on the part of Adobe to get their platform on my machine.  If I'd not had Secunia monitoring, I'd not have noticed it was there.

Bad, Adobe. Bad.  Go sit in the corner.  No soup for you.

So, Chris, how can we let the suits know I'm not happy about this?  Seems like a maze to actually get an e-mail address from the Adobe web site to contact the mother ship.

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chris.campbell
chris.campbell
Legend
March 21, 2011

That's interesting, I haven't seen that before.  In my experience, hitting "Cancel" to the EULA dialog quits the installer before copying any bits to the hard drive.  However, it's possible that you encountered a custom installer that had silently installed AIR (and used the optional flag to bypassing the EULA.)  In that case, we won't display the EULA dialog until the first time you launch the application which would mean that AIR was installed.  Does that sound about right?

What Steam demo were you trying when you found this?  I'd like to take a look.

Thanks,

Chris

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TeknobubbaAuthor
Participant
March 21, 2011

Winter Voices demo, Chris.  Not sure exactly when it installed...just that I hit "quit" and then found it was on my drive when Secunia popped up and told me it was there.  No problem uninstalling.  Like I said, just invasive.

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