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McAfee Security Scan Plus

  • September 16, 2010
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New computer, installed Firefox, went to get Flash Player for Firefox.

Install the plugin, Firefox warning comes up about software trying to be installed, click "allow", install window pops up, 3;2;1, click install.

Adobe Download Manager comes up downloads Flash Player, Adobe Flash install programs starts, need to close Firefox to continue

Flash installed, McAfee Security Scan Plus installed.....

Huh? What? McAfee Security Scan Plus????

Their was no notification that McAfee Security Scan Plus was going to be installed.  Their was no check box.

I am an IT guy.  I dont get viruses. I dont fall for scams. I dont get phished.  I dont click "yes" on anything that pops up on my screen.  I fix all my family and freinds computers.  I build my own computers, I havent bought a premade pc from a company in over 15 years.  I am a Linux system admin.

When I install software, like Flash player, I read everything that pops up on my screen, except for the full EULA.

I cant wait till HTML5 becomes standard.  Then the world can rid itself of this resource hog and now apprently also a virus.

Adobe Flash did not notify me McAfee Security Scan Plus was being installed untill after it was installed.

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      UnhappyUser322
      New Participant
      July 23, 2011

      I got a message in Firefox when trying to view a PDF saying that the document had been blocked because my version of Adobe Reader was old. There was a button to update Adobe Reader, which I clicked. I then also got McAfee Security Scan Plus. I was not redirected to a web site and there were no options to disable the McAfee product. I hate McAfee products and was seriously offended that McAfee Security Scan Plus was pushed onto my machine without my concent. This was the final straw for me. I have moved ALL my machines over to Foxit Reader and will also move machines that I manage over as I get to them. Goodbye Adobe, and good riddance.

      pwillener
      pwillener
      Brainiac
      July 24, 2011

      This is the Flash Player forum; I can't help you with Adobe Reader issues.

      UnhappyUser322 wrote:

      I have moved ALL my machines over to Foxit Reader and will also move machines that I manage over as I get to them.

      That's a "clever" move; it is well known that Foxit comes bundled with spyware!

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      xtremend007
      New Participant
      January 3, 2011

      Thanks for posting this. I thought I must have missed something.

      I'm also very aware of these issues, and never agree to anything like this. The first I know about it is when DLM announces that it HAS (past tense) installed McAffe.

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      RespectPrivacy
      New Participant
      January 3, 2011

      Same thing here - tricked into a download manager I do not want and a security thing I never asked for and certainly do not need (good stuff installed already) and most certainly do not want Adobe to provide without my very explicit consent. I wanted to update Adobe for security reasons and got a lot of **** instead. That has done it for me - uninstall anything Adobe now. Good bye Adobe - hope to never see you again!

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      GonneMaude
      New Participant
      January 2, 2011

      This maddens me too. I just now updated the flash player, and only noticed the McAffee

      download when I closed out the download manager.  I immediately unistalled the program.  If it were not spyware, the default would be to CHECK the download box.  As far as I'm concerned, I did not consent to it, therefore it is spyware.  SHAME ON ADOBE!!

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      Kramliw
      New Participant
      December 22, 2010

      I must say i was tricked into downloading this crapware onto my new  build, by adobe, and i wanted to rip someones head off, until i saw that  the download page did tell you what it was going to do , all beit pre  checked and to the sided. Guys you've got to understand that McAffee and  Adobe are partners. McAffee's virus scan is probably the biggest virus  scanner outthere - Mcaffee's false positives (for which they are  notoriously known for on Adobe keygens and cracks help adobe's bottom  line (or so they think). But i agree its quite underhanded to lure users and install crapware on their computer.

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      KingofCookies
      New Participant
      November 11, 2010

      Where do I begin... the anger... the frustration...

      We support ~700 machines, and keeping Flash and Reader up to date is pretty much one of my full time job descriptions now.  We leverage LANDesk to deploy software automatically, and we let it update Flash automatically this time.

      So imagine my surprise when we discovered the majority of our internet bandwidth was going to 207.114.197.70-94.  "Holy carp!" we proclaimed.  TRACK DOWN THOSE IPS!!! WHO OWNS THEM!  Are our machines compromised?!?  I did a reverse lookup and they're not listed as owned by anyone other than an ISP.  I searched and searched and searched and finally:

      ping download.mcafee.com

      Reply from 207.114.197.89: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=55

      ...

      It's *!@#&$32#$ MCAFEE BECAUSE OF THE FLASH UPDATE.  Adobe's update with McAfee managed to consume a large chunk of our internet bandwidth.  Early reports show they didn't actually install McAfee, thank god.  Suffice to say I loathe Adobe and their never ending updates and their disingenuous software plugs.

      I'm going to place the entire set of IPs in this post for searchability.  Sorry for the noise - but it was hard to track down the IPs so if anyone else experiences the same issue hopefully the search engines will lead them to this post.

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      pwillener
      pwillener
      Brainiac
      November 12, 2010

      KingofCookies wrote:

      We support ~700 machines, and keeping Flash and Reader up to date is pretty much one of my full time job descriptions now.

      Well, do you actually download the installer with McAfee, or the clean executable installer(s)?

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      PeterL7
      Participating Frequently
      November 4, 2010

      Why do we need a Download Manager at all?

      It made sense when downloading a 50Mb Java Development kit over dialup.

      It makes no sense at all now days, when I'm downloading a couple of Mb on ADSL.

      The only apparent reason that Adobe uses the DLM for Reader is to bundle unwanted software.

      PLEASE DITCH THE DLM!

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      JohnRHorb
      New Participant
      November 5, 2010

      We have blocked access to the Adobe download site at our company firewall. We now download any new version of the Reader from Adobe's FTP site, and make available on a shared drive. This appears to be the only secure way of avoiding getting Mcafee Security Scan and, for that matter, Adobe Air, as there is NO indication or tick box on the reader download site. I have found that accessing the site via Chrome DOES access the unadulterated download, but our company standard is IE.

      This IS going to lose Adobe a lot of goodwill.

      pwillener
      pwillener
      Brainiac
      November 6, 2010

      JohnRHorb wrote:

      We have blocked access to the Adobe download site at our company firewall. We now download any new version of the Reader from Adobe's FTP site...

      This is the Flash Player forum; there are no Flash Player downloads from the Adobe FTP site.  (But you can get uncompromised FP installers from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html)

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      liquidcrystalvision
      New Participant
      November 3, 2010

      This really is bullshit adobe.  You know very well hiding the checkbox over on the right is a sneaky way of forcing unwanted software on your users.  You should be ashamed.  I agree with the above poster: Adobe doesn't stand a chance in the fight against Apple as long as it keeps up this kind of behavior.

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      kobosch42
      New Participant
      October 29, 2010

      Adobe:

      PLEASE STOP INSTALLING OR EVEN ASKING TO INSTALL McAfee SecuritiScan software.

      If you ever want to come close to winning the battle with Apple, don't do THIS KIND OF USER UNFRIENDLY BEHAVIOR.

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      kobosch42
      New Participant
      November 1, 2010

      Is anyone from Adobe following this forum?

      Please react..........

      They should do anything to keep the runtime as lean and mean as possible and to not bother end users with anything.

      They should do anything to not bother users with another mouse click or even a minisecond extra thought.

      This really worries about the attitude of Adobes people responsible for the runtime.......

      What else is there included that we do not know of.......?

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      vampyren
      Participating Frequently
      October 26, 2010

      Just wanted to say that i got tricked to!!!! Was so supprise that McAfee Security Scan Plus got installed when i only wanted Flash.

      I hate it when companies put extra SH*T in the package. To me McAfee initself is worse then a viruse. Much like yourself i never get any virus (been using a pc for 15+ years) and i dont like to get my pc infected with rootkits installed by McAfee thankyou.


      Thank good i was using a test dummy image of my Acronis Trueimage to test some other stuff but now i know to never allow Flash DLM in firefox.

      I also look forward to HTML5 so that we can ger rid of things like this.

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