Same here! I clicked an an Adobe system message and received no checkbox to opt out of McAfee. I only noticed their horrible software after I clicked install and had to crash out of the install programme to stop McAfee infecting my system. I've spend hours trying to remove McAfee's annoying spyware software from various computers over the years and I certainly don't want to go through that process ever again.

A Google search shows thousands of unhappy Adobe customers complaining about exactly the same thing for the last three or four years. You'd think that Adobe would have sorted their act out by now. Those of us who subscribe to Creative Cloud and pay Adobe handsomely every month deserve better treatment than this. Bring on a replacement for Flash... please!

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"A Google search shows thousands of unhappy Adobe customers complaining about exactly the same thing for the last three or four years."

There may be thousands of customers unhappy about it but... there are MILLIONS of downloads of Flash Player each day.

Mathematically, the number of people who are "put off" or "outraged" by this is only a small percentage of a small percentage of all the end users who download Flash Player daily, weekly, or yearly.

That's not an attempt (even a pathetic one) to justify the no-opt-out install. I did however, provide an alternative download source to avoid the bundled software.

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