You know, I have seen some sites that require YOU to check the box to get the third party stuff, not have YOU UNCHECK the box like is now so common. So now Adobe, like all these other POS companies is auto enrolling you in crapware as well. Most people will use the autoupdate or the popup and will not see the MCafee garbage install.
If you allow it to auto update or use the popup notification to update, then it WILL install Mcafee.
You have to close the popup, go to the site, manually download it and you can then as shown above, opt out. Perhaps it might have been at this STEP 1, but that step is left out as the popup on the desktop puts you right at step 2 with the link.Īfter some digging, you cannot use the update popup to update. If there were a opt out box, it was not anywhere in this process. It linked to the site with a click here to download button, NOTHING MORE. This was done through the actual adobe flash updater.
Would like to add that I dont use adblock or anything that would prevent being shown an opt out screen.
IT TRIED TO INSTALL THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE TO MY PC WITHOUT PERMISSION!!! IT did NOT ask me to install it, I did NOT miss anything. I DO NOT WANT Mcafee and resent the fact that it tried to install it without MY PERMISSION. So I stopped the download and made an account on adobe just to write this. So I do that and it a downloader appears with 2 bars, the top bar shows multipul files downloading, the botton very CLEARLY states, Mcafee Security Essentials blah blah whatever. Download player from the link and run it. If you hit the download button it pulls up the site and says step 2 of 3. I get a big popup upon my latest computer restart stating to update Flash player to 12. Anyhoo, hope it gets fixed as it is kind of annoying and a bit shady. I am sure it is just a mild glitch, or at worse Mcafee being invasive on their part in some way.
I have exerted more time and effort on this post then deleting the offending program. It was only an additional five minutes, maybe. I just went through with it and removed the Mcafee program after everything finished installing. I stopped the process and went back because I am used to the opt out radio button being somewhere, but I could not find it in the process. It does the Adobe installation bar on the pop-up and right below that it does the Mcafee installaion bar. When you click the "update now" button it gives you this download file:Īs the instructions on the follow page say, I double click the EXE file and it begins installation. I turned on the computer and the Adobe updater popped up and told me Adobe needed updating. I too experienced this annoying issue with Mcafee today. If the new versions/updates have it as a selectable option, that's reasonable.I established an account so I could comment on this thread
I use Adobe Audition regularly, although I think it's hugely overpriced considering how little it has improved since it was Cool Edit Pro. But I believe Adobe's attitude on this matter is insulting, patronising and irresponsible. I've used McAfee's uninstall feature and so far have had no problems. It is deceptive and insulting to have it enabled by default, especially when it isn't related to the download, and when it messes with the system in a way that could easily cause stability issues (and some problems HAVE have been reported on this forum). Perhaps because its location is easy to ignore. There may have been an option to disable its installation if so, I guess I didn't notice it. The Flash Player downloader forced McAfee on me just recently.