After you click on the link, you will be taken to the Adobe Reader Download page. Just above the download button, You will see a box with a tick mark in it which indicates McAfee Antivirus will be downloaded too.
It would be really helpful, if they just did not do this. It is monumentally annoying. I always forget to uncheck the box and then have to kill the download. Just another reason to be unhappy with Adobe.
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This did not solve the problem. mcafee is hidden everywhere. PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS TO PEOPLE. I HAVE BEEN WASTING HALF HOUR SO FAR TO INSTALL ADOBER READER ALONE WITHOUT MCAFFEE MULTIPLE TIMES WITH NO SUCCESS.
That's really fecking annoying and a good example of user-hostile design. It immediately creates a negative impression of your company and business practices when you do crap like this. Just make it easy to install the product people want without extra crap or extra steps of hunting for the opt-out.
I understand this is an old post, but in 2011 people were STILL having this issue. Depending on the device you have, you won't even see the checkbox to NOT install McAfee. It's a garbage antivirus, why not bundle it with something 10x better? All it does it slow down machines, and doesn't even do it's job half the time. John McAfee admitted it was a garbage program himself. I had to look this up as I didn't see the checkbox, as an IT professional it's annoying when you have to find a way to not install McAfee, seeming how EVERYTHING is bundled with it.
If you immediately click the Download Acrobat Reader button on the page without scrolling down you might get McAfee by default, depending on your location. For me it's not ticked by default, but you can scroll do and untick it manually, and then click the Download link, and you won't get it bundled with the Reader installer.
I believe it's an issue with Chrome. My friend has confirmed the box is hidden in Chrome but works in Edge (and Firefox for me as well - I don't have Chrome installed). Google or Adobe is doing something weird with webpage presentation.
I unchecked the box for Mcafee when I downloaded the Adobe installer, and it still installed Mccrappy. Such a hostile user experience on top of this already bloated PDF reader software. This is borderline criminal extortion treatment of users.
Downloaded and installed Adobe Acrobat Reader DC just a few minutes ago. There was absolutely NO option to download without the McAfee Secure Connect and Scanner software bundled - only the option for the Chrome Plugin. Installer started, and it force installed the McAfee software, without my consent.
Yes, I could uninstall both McAfee products that were force installed (and I did), however, this is beyond an agregious act by Adobe. How the f%^k do you think you have the right to install additional software without *explicit* consent? And no, some deeply buried blurb in your T&C's for downloading Adobe Reader don't count.
SMH.
=TTGWL47M is the URL you are directed to from adobe.com when you click "PDF & E-Signatures" on the top menu bar, then "Acrobat Reader", and then click "Donwload PDF Reader". This is the flow from the Adobe home page.
I want to add as well that this same explanation is given in other threads on the same topic - "oh the check boxes are there, here's a screenshot", and it's the same outdated screenshot used again and again.
It's not just the geo-location. I got different results while on the same laptop on the same couch in the same home in the same browser with different types of browser sessions (one while logged into Google, another in a Guest session).
Somebody coded the different scenarios; a software developer has zero incentive to do this because they're just paid to code. Somebody up the chain made the decision to code these different scenarios for some reason, otherwise they're complete idiots that don't know how to do their job. The scenarios look completely intentional though, and a middle manager has no incentive to do this either. The decisions were made at the top, and I'd like to know how intentionally deceptive they were being while making that decision.
I don't know what determines the difference, but... it's dishonest behavior for Adobe to install software from another party without telling the user or giving them the option to opt out. Right now McAfee should be considered PuP by Microsoft just because of Adobe's behavior here.
This is what installs McAfee. Stranger still, the exe file deletes itself after it's done... I'm not aware of any other install file I've ever had on my computer that deleted itself after installing except for a virus.
Who knows what else McAfee has done to my system? I uninstalled two apps with its name (in Add Remove Programs in Windows 10), but apparently I need to also remove Registry keys... this is an invasion of our privacy, and completely non-consensual. What's been done to our systems? Adobe's a billion-dollar company. They don't need to resort to these scammy, scummy, lying behaviors.
I don't know what to believe from Adobe anymore. What about you as an employee? Are they lying to you? What are the users having done to their systems with these files? Maybe a real techie needs to investigate...
It doesn't need a techie -- it needs an attorney. It's not a matter of what file is installed where and what that it does; it is a matter of forcing you to install an application without your permission.
A technical investigation is needed by an attorney or someone willing to sue Adobe for misadvertisement or non-consensual installation of two software products that are not specified before downloading is set in motion (by button click to new page load), with no opt-out checkboxes on a normal download page (as in, a typical scenario for most people hitting the page).
I'm hoping someone more technically educated (or equipped) or that has more time will trace it and expose what's happening somewhere, either here or on Reddit or on some infosec website like Krebs on Security (he'd love knowing how and why this is happening).
Right now I consider this deceptive installation to be at minimum PuP (or Potentially-unwanted Software) - at least based on my experience with Microsoft's Windows Defender warnings for typical PuPs - and at maximum spyware or malware considering it looks like McAfee automatically scans your files after installation (without user activation), and Adobe installs an extension to Chrome which I accidentally activated when the Enable box popped up while my pinky was headed for the Enter key (and that extension has full permissions to all data on all websites you have open, so who knows what it saw until I deactivated it and uninstalled it).
By the way, I reported the extension as malware because it behaved like previous malware that I've had on my computer (auto-installed and scanned data without my willful permission). I've completely installed anything Adobe and McAfee from my computer because of this scummy behavior (which should be beneath Adobe, since it's typically how financially-desperate or crooked software distributors behave). It really makes Adobe look pathetic, like Gollum grasping for his precious ring at the edge of a volcano. Companies this big should keep dignity present, not smear scum all over themselves and everyone else that touches them.
Installed Acrobat Reader on spouse's PC. THERE ARE NO CHECKBOXES. NO OPTION to exclude McAfee apps. It was excruciating to uninstall/delete all the McAfee files. I hope I did not miss any.
OUTRAGEOUS!!
Hopefully a legal case can be made against this behavior so Adobe can start behaving rationally with users with this app's download. Right now I won't be using Adobe/McAfee because of this foul behavior, but that's of course not going to stop the behavior.
Here we are in 2023, and Adobe has not shown interest: McAfee is still there, and there is no option to include it or not. Hasn't the issue of including unwanted software been run through the courtroom before?
If Adobe cannot handle the herculean effort of giving the user the choice of not installing McAfee (and also Rosetta) from its products, then at least they could handle identifying what may be deleted without harm.
It came with a pc and after uninstall, run their removal tool, wait on chat, have a tech remote control then upgrade to a higher tier tech who also remote controlled it STILL keeps appearing here so I Really want to buy a laptop that doesn't have it!!! I would genuinely pay 3 times what McAfee pays them to be able to buy a computer without it!
Yep. McAfee seems to have done that right. They either pay to be installed, or offer kickbacks to the manufacture if a subscription is taken up by the user. I do not know for sure, but I would think the manufactures would not bother to install it if they did not get something out of it.
Without knowing what you are talking about here, I can only assume the new software you installed had a "optional" install for McAfee's that they selected "yes" too. There is a lot of programs you can install (that are mostly free) that have this crap ware addition added to the installer.
That would be windows defender. It is built into the more recent versions of windows as a free protection software. How good it is, is open to debate, but free and not a hassle is nice for most people. McAfee and all other similar protection software are seen as "better" so the windows defender will "step down" in some areas of protection when the other software is installed. Reason being, having multiple protection software running can lead to performance issues, reduced battery time and even off computer behavior.
you would have to search for that information. It is "better than nothing" but is not the fastest at updating to new threats. In some ways, it is a bit like "builders putty", it exists to fill in the holes missed by third party protection programs. 152ee80cbc
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