Flash forces install of McAfee

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August 25, 2013
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I go to:

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

I click on:

Get the latest version

Download the most recent version of Adobe Flash Player

It DOES NOT give me an option to deselect McAfee

This give me:

Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.94 (16.9 MB)

Your system: Windows 64-bit , English, Firefox

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

which downloads and installs McAfee without anywhere giving me the option to deselect McAfee.

I do not expect, and I do not want, Adobe to install a competitor's product to the security software vendor that *I* chose to put on my computer.

It is not reasonable on the part of Adobe to force my selection, against my will, of a competitor's security software. Such duplicate installation often causes security problems!

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manuel_321

Participant

As if it were not enough to receive constant flash player updates anouncements, the last one came with a surprise. This time Adobe didn't allow me to choose whether to install mcafee or not (btw shame on you Adobe for making me to have to uncheck that box every time). A pop up window shown up with the download status of both Flash player update and mcafee, and installed it without asking. Why should I have to loose my time having to uninstall mcafee? Why should I have to loose my time having to uncheck that box every other time? How do I know Mcafee has not left anything in my computer after uninstall? I have my own antivirus, so please, just stop annoying your users with that kind of annoying behaviour.

PS: I don't install anything automatically before checking how it was for other users, so save your advices on enable updates automatically.

SHAME ON YOU!

Manuel

pwillener

Legend

jimad3 wrote:
Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.94 (16.9 MB)
Your system: Windows 64-bit , English, Firefox
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Strange; when I go there I see

Anyway, if you use the offline installers from the links in the previous post, you will never have to worry again.

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jimad3Author

Participant

The setup you are quoting is 32-bit. The setup I am quoting is 64-bit. The user should not have to implement workarounds to escape unreasonable corporate behavior by Adobe.