Forced install of McAfee

What happed to the option to opt out of installing McAfee?
There used to be a way to disable the McAfee from automatically installing with Adobe Flash & Reader. I just installed flash, and McAfee Security Scan Plus was forcefully installed. I retraced my steps to make sure I didn't miss the disable option and there was none.
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.
Dan

I did a Google search for 'Adobe flash' and followed the result to here:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/?installer=Flash_Player_11_for_Other_Browsers&os =Windows%207&browser_type=KHTML&browser_dist=Chrome&d=Adobe_Photoshop_Lightroom_for_Window s_32-bit&p=mss&dualoffer=false
From this site I downloaded:
install_flashplayer11x32_itr5x32d_awc_aih.exe
Dan

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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

Why when I uncheck the McAfee box I am forced to download McAfee to get the latest version of Flash Player? What is the work around here?

Why when I uncheck the McAfee box I am forced to download McAfee to get the latest version of Flash Player? What is the work around here?

I received your PM. Yes, the links have changed:
Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer)
Flash Player Plug-in (All other browsers)
Flash Player for Mac OS X

Forced installation of McAfee during download of updates

Why does Adobe force installation of McAfee while downloading their latest update? Is there another product i can switch to and uninstall Adobe Flash Player?

If you have Acrobat, rather than the free Adobe Reader, there is no offer of Macafee, so far as I know; you've been scammed.
If you have the free Reader you can turn it off with an option like this:
but if you didn't get that I strongly suspect a scam. There are a lot of fake Reader updates out there and I'd be more worried about the things it didn't mention...

Force Install of Snow Leopard on MacBook Pro

I purchased a used MacBook Pro from IBM where I worked until a few days ago. I got the laptop and it has been erased by some disk utility that IBM uses to wipe the disk clean. I try using the Option button to boot to the disk utility but it seems that absolutely nothing is left on the MacBook. When I boot using the Option key, it brings up a screen with two options. One looks like a hard disk that has the word WINDOWS underneath it and the other looks like a CD called MacOSx Install DVD. Under that, I can choose a network. When I click on the DVD, it just sits and does nothing. From reading other posts, it seems that I must wipe the partitions off the hard disk first and then the DVD will start the install. However, I do not know how to ge the disk utility and/or whatever IBM did to this thing disabled even the disk utility. I called Apple last night and made an appointment to do a force install but looking at posts, seems I should be able to do this myself with the right key strokes and order of things. I'm brand new to Mac. Does anyone know how I can verify if the disk utility still exists on the Mac? Wouldn't that be in the BIOS or in Ring 0 of the hard drive? Did IBM wipe it out, too or something?

You have to find out the exact model of the machine then erase and install the operating system that came with it from the factory or 10.6 earliest.
This User Tip of mine is more appropriate for your situation
How to reformat a used Mac

Flash update force-installing McAfee

I'm writing this as a long-time member of Creative Cloud, a guy who uses (and loves) Adobe products daily, and who has repeatedly boosted and defended Adobe to his sometimes suspicious friends and coworkers. I've built my business using Adobe programs.
Do you want me to stop?
I finally got around to letting Flash update itself on my home machine. And it also installed, *without asking*, some McAfee Security Scan software.
Please note that I do not avoid McAfee like the plague. I avoid the plague like McAfee. And it really, really, really pisses me off when doing a security update on a completely unrelated piece of software forces me to install something - anything - let alone something that I really really don't want. This is not a particularly contentious position for me to take: Hell, even McAfee hates McAfee!
It is absolutely outrageous that Adobe's installer didn't even give me the option to cancel the install. I canceled the whole thing once, and then went and started over, only to confirm that there was no way to avoid the forced McAfee install.
Hey, Adobe: I shouldn't have to choose between having an old version of your software or having to go back into my control panel to excise some crap you forced onto my system without my permission.
I'm not usually one to complain about "corporate BS". I know how marketing works. I save my outrage for truly egregious betrayals of customers' trust. But this is one of them.
Adobe, I hope you're listening to this, because I'm as devoted a fan as you're likely to see. I go weeks without having fewer than two or three Adobe apps running at once on multiple systems. I talk about how awesome your design software is. For the love of God, I went on a rant about how awesome Muse is to a relative who works for Weebly. If you're pissing me off enough for me to wish I had an alternative just because your behavior is so incredibly arrogant and obnoxious that it overloads all of the positive work that the rest of your excellent products have done, then you have a really, really big problem.
You can do better, Adobe. Please do better.

Thanks for the feedback, and apologies for the frustration.
We take these reports seriously, and I investigate the vast majority of them; however, I've been unable to find a set of steps that reproduces the behavior that you're describing. There *is* a pre-checked checkbox that opts in to the McAfee download, but you should only get the bundled offer if the box was checked. The intent is absolutely to respect the indicated preference. If the software did not behave as intended and you received the bundled offer with the opt-in box unchecked, I'd be more than happy to investigate further and try to get the issue fixed. We test the installation and upgrade workflows carefully across multiple people in multiple geographies using a wide variety of configurations with each release, and I've never seen this issue come up in our testing.
This is a complaint that I see far more than I would like, which is why I try to be diligent about digging into reports; however, the lack of reproducible steps makes it hard to find anything concrete to fix. If I can nail it down, I'm more than happy to champion the issue and get it resolved.
I spent a good amount of time recently trying to make this happen for Firefox with no luck using a whole bunch of variations while outside the Adobe network:
Shared Files - Acrobat.com
I do know that occasionally plug-ins that modify how JavaScript on the page gets executed can cause the wrong payload to be downloaded; however, the unmodified code should not produce that result.
If you have any relevant details that might help me reproduce the problem, or see anything that I'm missing (maybe you're doing something differently during the installation, etc) when testing this,
I've provided a copy of the screen that you should see with the opt-out dialog a the beginning of the installation process for reference.

McAfee software forced install with latest Adobe flash update 12/26/14

So it seems that Adobe has once again chosen to go the route of not even giving an opt-out option for whatever 'software' they bundle their Adobe Flash update with. I fail to see how this practice creates anything but mistrust for these products from a consumers perspective. Having worked in IT and having had to deal with questions like "Why is my browser changed/messed up?" or "Why did X show up on my computer and is now spamming me to buy something?" it's frustrating knowing that in many cases it's large companies that are to blame. In this case it seems even more calculated coming right after a major holiday when inevitably more PC's and more inexperienced users enter the market.
I personally will never use McAfee or Google Chrome or (heaven forbid) Ask.com related software if this is how they intend to do business. I'd like to think that large businesses like Adobe would have better marketing strategies for their sponsors that don't create dissent and distrust among consumers.

Adobe's Flash Player update workflow does present the choice of also getting some "added value" software (e.g., AV - Search Engine stuff for browsers - etc.).
One simply unticks the boxes on the step that displays the choice.
Oh yeah, ya do gotta look rather than do a fast click through which will result in a gotcha eh.
One "gotcha" back in the day was all it took for me to "STAR" these sort of updates.
No "gotchas" since.
You'll observe similar with other software package updates (e.g., Java, etc.).

How can I force-install iOs5/6 apps on my iPod Touch?

Hi, I have an iPod touch version 4.3.5 (ML1). Model is MC540C.
The App Store sometimes bars me from installing apps because the app has a minimum requirement of iOS 5 or 6. How can I force my iPod to install these apps anyway?

No, it is more than the screen dimension.
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Has anyone had the same problem with IOS 6 install and McAfee flagging certain IOS 6 install components as Malware?

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So I resynced it and at least all my stuff is still there. Not going to bother trying with my phone if it didn't work on the ipod touch.
I can assure you my 4s is out of warranty. I've had it for 2 years.

Force-installing Xsan 1.4.2 File System Update on Leopard

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NOTE: This is a hack. It may seriously screw up your system. Worst case, though, you'll have to reinstall Tiger anyway, so what the hey.
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4. Browse to Contents:Installers, right-click the XsanFilesystem.pkg file, and choose "Show Package Contents"
5. In Contents, drag the Archive.pax.gz file to your desktop.
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7. Type the following commands, exactly as written. Note the spaces etc. (copy the text into a monospace font if you're not sure):
# cd /
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# gunzip Archive.pax.gz
# pax -rp e -f Archive.pax
# exit
8. Reboot.
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*What did you just do?* When you run the Xsan updater, it checks for various software versions, namely Mac OS X and Xsan. If it finds the wrong versions, it won't run the update. The above procedure "force-installs" the basic files from the 1.4.2 update--which are contained in the Archive.pax.gz archive--so that when you run the updater in Step 9, it finds an acceptable version of Xsan and proceeds with the installation.

Let me clarify the second line of the terminal commands in Step 7:
mv /Users/(your username)/Desktop/Archive.pax.gz .
Replace (your username) with your account's short name; e.g. if your account is "bubba" then it would read:
mv /Users/bubba/Desktop/Archive.pax.gz .
Or, "mv(space)/Users/bubba/Desktop/Archive.pax.gz(space)."

In the process of installing the updated version (forced install)....

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Registry entry to force install of reader updates?

Greetings!
I've been trying to deploy Reader updates across our network via GPO but it's been a real, real hassle. Also, because some of the client PCs are connected via slow links the install time is sometimes excruciatingly long (computer configured GPO).
SMS is not an option right now, so I'm thinking that rather than use GPO to centrally manage reader updates I throw up my arms and leave it up to the users. So my question is if there is some sort of a registry setting that will force Reader updates to install once they are downloaded from the Internet. Or, alternatively, if there some sort of login script available that would check if there was a Reader update available for installation and forcibly install it. Or, alternatively, if anyone has figured out a better way to deal with the Reader GPO deployment nightmare.

Hi,
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[HKLM]\Software\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM\
Name: iCheck (DWORD)
Value: 3
Post Reader 10.1:
[HKLM]\Software\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM\
Name: iCheckReader (DWORD)
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For more details on all the configurations on the updater preferences, please refer to the following document:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83709/attachments/Acrobat_Reader_Updater.pdf
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Possible to force install other Mac OS'es other than ones shipped?

Hello everyone!
So, I have a power mac G4 2003 dual 1.25 MDD model and although I have the original install/restore disks for 10.2(Jaguar) and OS 9.2.2, I was wondering if there is a way, or if it exists, of hacking the firmware to allow my system to boot anything lower than 9.2.2?
Although, I got a glimpse of what OS 8.6 and lower looks like through Sheepshaver, I wanted to go a little step further and see if it is remotely possible to FORCE recognize on boot any version of Mac OS other than the ones that came with the machine?
I want to natively boot into Mac OS 8.6 and see what it looks like in full screen and just to see how it runs for nostalgic reasons. I know System 7.6.1 won't work for sure, though there has to be a way to allow the system to recognize by force mac OS's that are lower than what came with the machine?
Even Puma and Cheetah would be interesting to see. Again, I know this is a rather stupid question or request, but has anyone ever done this, or if it is remotely possible?
Thanks and have a great Monday!

There are plenty of examples where what you want to do would work fine. But on the specific Mac you are using, the mirrored drive doors G4, there were major architectural changes.
The Bus Controller used in previous Macs was replaced with a different High Speed custom Integrated circuit that provided access to a never-before-seen type of memory running faster than ever before. No support for it exists in any previous version of any Mac OS. That same IC also provided a previously unseen Interface to the Hard drive, now at ATA/100 speeds. Another new Interface running at speeds never seen before. And that same IC also provides an Interface for FireWire 800 in certain models, another architectural change. The performance gains are remarkable. That it will not run older versions of Mac OS is completely unremarkable.
Your Mac has a completely different Hardware Architecture for its Memory and Hard drive. There was no code to drive that Hardware in previous versions of Mac OS because that Hardware did not exist when those versions of Mac OS were written. If you want to run older versions of Mac OS, you WILL need an older Mac that can run them. If there were a way to hack it, this community would know about it and tell you.

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