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by drzaiusapelord 4376 days ago
This is a pretty big problem with dying proprietary solutions. They'll bundle and do other dirty tricks to keep revenue up. Heck, you can't even install flash without nagging for a slew of add-ons like some mcaffee crap. Now they're just putting the add-ons on without asking?
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You can usually just untick "McAffee" when you download the installer. Unless they removed this ability, most people don't read when they download software I suppose and install McAffee on their machine.
Fun bug I discovered. Install a new Win7 machine. If you have IE8 or 9 on there, which you will because its fresh install, and you visit the flash install page before moving to IE11 you'll see the 'install mcaffee/chrome' box unchecked. Except it is checked but its rendering unchecked. You can verify this by clicking on it and then nothing happens visually, but now it is properly unchecked. Also the install size on the page will change to a smaller value.

I doubt Adobe has much incentive to fix this bug.