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.