[locked] I HATE your McAfee Security Scan Plus INSTALL!!!

I'm sorry, but this kind of outburst seems silly and immature.  It's common practice for companies to offer free additional software with downloads.  When I signed up for this forum, there were about five different checkboxes (all auto-checked) signing me up for emails I don't want to get. I UNCHECKED THEM.  This is a COMMON business practice for internet businesses and some people appreciate the free virus scan software.  I don't think Adobe is a sleazy company for bundling these two pieces of software and allowing you to unselect the McAfee option.  It's NORMAL and FINE.

Grow up, take responsibility, and learn to read.

This is insane - why would I want McAfee Security Scan Plus when I was updating Flash? All I was doing was trying to open the browser to do a quick task, but Frirefox wanted updating and in the process it says I need an urgent update to the Flash player... so now I've been interrupted twice, I want to just get this out of the way and get on with what I was doing.

In answer to some of the other people criticisingthis guy for not payinig attention, why should we have to pay attention to something like this? I am an interface designer and I can tell you this is BAD design. You don't provide people with an opt-out for something they have not chosen during a routine event. You then get a) people overlooking this because we tend to rush through in everyday tasks like this, b) not lookinig for it becuase this isn't usually there, c) notexpecting "little traps" because this is supposedly a large "trustworthy" company.

This is a trust issue - as a device to knock large chunks of value off your brand it's pretty successful. The director in charge of the Adobe brand should go and kick whatever f**kwit thought this was a good idea, becuase they've probably just knocked a few hundred thousand $ off the balance sheet.

And as to the personal responsibility - well yes I agree we need to get back to taking personal responsibility for things... but equally, companies have responsibility for designing things not trip people up (do you think Boeing should not worry about the pilot interface because heshould just pay more attention?).  And there is a big difference between a design mistake and a "reputable" company deliberately providing a required opt-out for unrequested extras, for thier own commercial gain.

By the way I am right now looking at a huge bill to buy CS5 which I have to have to do my job... 'dI rather that when I pay a lot for the product it covers the cost of the required security updates, instead of me having to look out for tricks they pull when Installing security updates.

Basically this kinid of thing doesn't improve our lives.

Steve Jobs is right - I am looking forward to the day we can browse the web without needing the ever-so-frequent Adobe bloatware upgrades that comeloaded with sidecar junk like this.

It's a text renderer, for goodness sake - why has it become simultaneously (a) the most attractive target for malware hackers, (b) one of the most frequently updated components of a PC, (c) a vector for delivering yet more unwanted bloatware?  I'm guessing that in the last 5 years we've had 25 updates of Reader, and I bet most people couldn't name a single value added feature for all those upgrades.  Unless you are Intel or Seagate, successfully selling more processor power and disc drives, perhaps...

Unhappy....

Mark 5000 no thats not the point, Adobe is not Sleeze ball. Basically read before you click

AND look for the check boxes. I have a note on my computer  READ ALL cause then no body can charge you monthly fees on crap and all the other stuff that goes on in the FINE PRINT.

Save yourself a headache and READ READ READ

I cut down on my use of Ibuprophen LOL

Thanks Bella

GenePilot wrote: WTF is wrong with you people?????

There is really no point insulting your fellow users in this forum!  If you have some beef with Adobe's policy, take it to Adobe, not the user forum!

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Point  and click on everything without ever reading any of it.

McAfee pays a  surcharge which helps to support bandwidth and server maintenance for  all the Flash Player downloads. In exchange, Adobe offers a free scan app from them (IF YOU CHOOSE TO INSTALL IT... OR DON'T CHOOSE NOT TO).

99.99%  of all viruses are downloaded because people, like you, don't bother to even look at what they are clicking on and just do it. Hackers, and virus writers plan on just that sort of stupidity in PC users, which is why there is such a market for anti-virus software. There should be an app for anti-stupid... but then Microsoft would lose 98% of it's customer base in one fell swoop.

READ THINGS BEFORE YOU JUST BLINDLY CLICK THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi, LOL. That is exactly what I told Dell:-) Ok, did you miss the "Read this?" Post back your Operating System, is it a 64bit, and what browser(s) and versions you use.

Did you have any problem Uninstalling your previous FP version?

Thanks,

eidnolb