Flash forces install of McAfee

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!

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

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Tricking people into installing programs they don't want was bad form back when RealNetworks used to play that trick. I've always been bothererd that Adobe stoops that low, but to force the install without asking is just unexcusable.
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