Latest Firefox update breaches security be installing unwanted app.

Firefox just updated itself on my PC. It then commanded me to install the Adobe Flash player update. Which is fine but the Adobe update also installed a McAfee app. I immediately deleted (uninstalled) the unwanted app after Adobe released my machine.
I believe this to be a security breach on the part of Adobe. What do you think?
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Nonsense!
This puts the burden on the user not the vendor. It is up to Mozilla to police its plug in suppliers who participate with an update to play by the rules: install only the stated plugin with no 6 point checkboxes to deselect other garbage.
If the vendors do not regulate themselves, users will simply not update but stick with what they have.
Adobe is at fault here, but Mozilla played along. I have heard nothing from Adobe on the issue.
/Franky Lamouche

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