Acrobat Reader installs McAfee WITHOUT my permission (no boxes to untick)

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
June 9, 2022
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Acrobat Reader installer automatically downloads installs McAfee and McAfee Safe Connect garbage.

There are NO BOXES that I could untick in the installer or on your website. You're straight up scamming people into downloading this crap.

I saw in the other thread that people showed checkboxes that allow to decline McAfee on the download page. Here is the screenshot. The only checkbox here is for Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension.

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Carol F Metzger

Inspiring

Installed Acrobat Reader on spouse's PC. THERE ARE NO CHECKBOXES. NO OPTION to exclude McAfee apps. It was excruciating to uninstall/delete all the McAfee files. I hope I did not miss any.

OUTRAGEOUS!!

Amal.

Community Manager

Hi there

Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear that.

Would you mind sharing the link of the page from where you downloaded the Acrobat Reader DC?

We do have the options available to uncheck the additional services as shown below:

Regards

Amal

try67

Community Expert

I know for a fact this page works differently depending on your location. In the EU, for example, those boxes are unticked by default, but in the US they are. Maybe in other parts of the world (Russia?), they don't exist at all, and Adobe is just pushing this third-party nonsense onto its users without their consent?

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rinart73Author

Participant

I'm in Serbia but my OS and browser are in Russian.

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