Thanks Adobe, for installing putrid McAfee on my PC without my permission!

[Beachcolonist]

Acrobat Reader was running poorly (spinning wheel), so I decided to reinstall it from their site. No problem right because I am a loyal Cloud customer and we can trust Adobe! Wrong.

The devious installer put "McAfee Safe Connect" GARBAGE software on my Win10 PC, without my permission. It is a god awful experience trying to get rid of it and I have not done so yet.

McAfee are complete LIARS, their advertised uninstall via Windows usual methods is BS that just removes the reference to the name of the program from a list. Wtf Adobe are you not making enough $$ that you have to screw with long time Cloud subscribers??

[andre_6652]

NOPE!!  There was no install screen on my install. And yes, Adobe has the right to make even more money, but I also have the right to say that their product is crap and spread the word to not use it. There, fixed it for you. 

[FeliTec]

I have filed a formal complaint regarding to this case [here]

This is completely outrageous and unacceptable (make have actually touched US law: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 18 U.S.C. § 1029 and 1030), please help to support the complaint crusade by upvoting & commenting my submition to their product team here: [Click here to direct], 30 upvotes will get us to the top of the list.

[Carol F Metzger]

I never solved it. Husband's PC. I have Acrobat with CC, so I don't need the free reader on my Mac.

[Tellya Later]

Thanks for that.  I just went to https://get.adobe.com/reader and it looks completely different than the other day.  The 2 optional McAfee downloads are listed at the top of the page again (like they were years ago).  I still had to UNcheck them, BUT they were highly visible and not hidden as they were last week.

So thank you!  We WON!! 😄

[Abambo]

@FeliTec 

In Europe, the law forbids opt out options, so you expressly need to opt-in. That would be the way to go. 

[Peter26299257xf83]

Thanks Adobe for wasting my morning unistalling an unwanted program. Very deceptive and a terrible business practice. I can tell you without a doubt I do not want Mcafee on my PC and had no intention of installing it. I was simply running an Adobe update, that is it. Shameful.  

[Donald37439314ea4v]

You can use Revo Uninstaller (free) to remove McAfee, and just about anything else.  Be careful after scanning, and do not check anything not in bold.

[OneWileyDog]

McAfee is simply a virus pretending to be anti-virus. It will not uninstall, so I may try deletogn all the files and cleaning my registry.

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi OneWileyDog,

Thank you for reaching out.

If McAfee was installed with Acrobat Reader, you must uninstall It. Then, McAfee will be removed automatically.   

You may install Acrobat Reader from the following page: https://adobe.ly/3ARf26R. 

Hope the information helps.

Thanks,

Meenakshi