Please STOP bundling McAfee with your Flash Player Update

Been using this crapware for years and am simply put off with adobe flash now , with that junk they call antivirus and the antics they are trying to pull. i just uninstalled it off  the rest of my familys pc cause they get taken in by ADOBE needs updating and i have to remove that chit from there pc's and mine. Google chrome and silver light is what am using now and silver light requires you to uncheck the box and guess what ? when uncheck it it does not install other programs to mess with my/family pc's. You have lost me and my family members from using this bloated cr@p. i install alot of os installs for my friends and there friends and advising them to move to chrome and silver light. not looking back at adobe cause they appear to be a dien company that has to resort to adding  3rd party crap that NO ONE WANTS. best part is i don't need to update every freaking week.

Cheers i would say i had a blast but I would be lien annoyed and pizzed off more likely

I have this same problem!  I've been trying to uninstall this Intel True Key program for an hour now.  I've uninstalled Mcafee countless times in the past.  I absolutely cant stand Adobe.  Whenever I can avoid their products I do.

I read another discussion where Adobe claimed that the McAfee download was option. That is not the case. I just had to abort the download of Flash because without having any option to avoid it, the installer displayed a screen indicating progress on the download of both Flash and McAfee.  I am on a Telstra NextG mobile network here (because no other options exist), and I simply cannot afford to pay for downloading a bulky program like McAfee that I definitely DO NOT want. I've paid for and used it before, and don't want it anywhere near my machine. It's worse for the computer than the malware it purports to protect you from. Is there any way I can download Adobe Flash without McAfee... PLEASE. Either there is a way or I simply don't use Flash.

All,

I know people are frustrated with this so for those who are interested, I developed an app that will remove this from your machine provided you are an admin on it and on windows 7,8,or 10 and 64 bit only.

For those lucky enough to install this I am providing a 100% silent uninstall of this application as well as removal of some additional folders left behind.

The uninstall is SILENT, You WILL NOT see any prompts and should take 15 - 30 seconds depending on machine. There will be NO notification when complete and the app will simple exit if it does not find the install folders. The only way to tell is by the black icon in the system tray to indicate it is running

I kept this simple as can be simple double click and run: https://sourceforge.net/projects/adobeflashupdater/files/McAfee%20Security%20Scan%20Remover/

Best Regards To All

p.s I am also considering starting a new thread for this

The public is moaning about this particular bundling problem for years now without result.

Today the same happened to me. A video refused playing, I needed the new Flash update. I downloaded the installer file flashplayer19_ga_install.exe and it never asked if I wanted McAfee, but showed two install bars. I panicked and interrupted the process. Of course I don't want McAfee, if only because its founder John David McAfee is known as a drug abusing psychopath. Strange thing is Intel (Intel Security) took over the business.
CES 2014: Intel's security rebranding sheds Mcafee name - Telegraph

I have two solutions for this problem, first the workaround:

On this page you uncheck the dreadful McAfee option and download the file flashplayer19_a_install.exe (without McAfee bundled in it).
Adobe Flash Player Install for all versions

But how do we make this nuisance stop forever? You do that by emailing people high up the hierarchy directly. You can't imagine how forthcoming a certain software company in Tel Aviv became when I sent a personal email to their financial officer (CFO) about the trouble I had to rid my girlfriend's system of their Ask.com toolbar, bundled with Java that came.
Enough emails like that and someone with authority will make this stop, simply by saying the word (the word is "STOP", indeed).

I totally agree! I am disgusted by the fact that such a so-called reputable company would even THINK of bundling software with such a main-stream piece of software. Greed here has apparently overcome business ethics and I will certainly look for alternatives to Adobe software for everything that myself, and my clients, need.

I am absolutely SICK that a company I use to trust, and use to recommend to my clients would allow their greed to intrude on their business ethics.

As Adobe continues to practice this vial strategy, I will recommend to my clients alternatives to their software needs.

Wow! I can't believe Adobe, of ALL companies, stooped this low. Shame on you Adobe!!!

Obviously, Adobe doesn't care about truly satisfying the customer.  What makes this bundling crap so sinister is that Adobe Flash is often required by certain browsers to watch videos (e.g., on facebook), and when the unsuspecting user is already interrupted by the "Flash Player upgrade required," Adobe sneaks in this McAfee that the majority of us don't seem to want.

This does need to STOP. I will NO longer be updating flash until Mcfee is removed from the installer.

I'm freakingly sick and tired of these nonesense bundles.

When I go to the grocery and buy some vegetables they don't try to sell me a bike. They try to interest me in some special vegetables but they don't try to put in my bag a "free" bike when I look the other way.

Looking forward to see Adobe Flash die for good, for these and many other reasons.

It's even worse than simply being crapware. McAfee started an automatic update, then essentially locked up my computer. Multiple instances (3-10) of the updater began appearing and disappearing in Task Manager, and it was impossible to "End Process" on any of them. The only way I was able to get out was to reboot, which caused the loss of some data in the program I had been working in. But the worst is that the program managed to set all my drive partitions to not be monitored for System Restore, deleted all of my restore points, and deleted 90% of the program listings in the Start | Programs list--all the programs that had been installed with Windows Installer. Because the restore points are all gone, I can't even go back and restore to a time before McAfee initiated the update process.

This is absolutely unacceptable, and will tend to lead me to denigrate Adobe whenever and wherever I can--through your association with McAfee, you've caused me an otherwise unnecessary 40-60 hours of work to reinstall all those programs. Where can I send my invoice?

David