How to stop grouping Adobe 'MALWARE' with their updates.

We must launch a petition to Adobe to stop the McAfee group automatically with each update. Not everyone is tech savvy (including my parents) and I'm sick of helping those who have accidentally install this shit on their machines. If they are unable to stop the group he have at least the box unchecked on the page set up so people can manually check themselves after they read whatever it is if they still want installed. It of bad netiquette and doing business, and it must end now.

This isn't a good reason for self opt in. There is very little reason to auto opt in anything, especially something unrelated to your software.

A lot of people do not trust McAfee in particular for many reasons arising from their history of advertising, mediocre ability, wrong size, wrong gear and many other things. Even IF they did a reliable product, flash is too ubiquitous to think that end users do not already have an AV installed.

Software AV usually don't play well with other AV software, including McAfee and Symantec.

This also opens the Adobe Flash Installer for Trojans tie so that the portion of McAfee requires a high level of function security. If you think this is a reason for direct downloads, it's not that it would not be a big problem to the Adobe servers target for a feat.

The latest incarnation of McAfee AV is very buggy and creates its own weird UI with no warning is another very bad question.

Note that this problem is on top of the already bad issue of the update of flash too often; always use automatic updates is enabled instead of remember the choice of the user; and the additional steps new, horrible to have to go to adobe.com to update while keeping the annoying popup previous installer.

[mug shot = response to reply comments section]

Jeromie Clark wrote:

Thanks for your comments.

Flash Player is extremely expensive to develop, maintain and distribute.  It requires the effort of a large number of specialized and talented people, and by pushing a single implementation to day consumes approximately 50 petabytes of bandwidth.  To offer Adobe products free bundles represent a necessary cost-recovery mechanism.

If Adobe had "50 petabytes with a value of bandwidth", they wouldn't need McAfee for advertising revenue they'd already one of the richest companies in the world. Why? Because Google uses only 25 ~ TB of bandwidth, and it would take 2,000 times more than that. Check your knowledge before the representative of your company.

If you mean that the total amount of data transferred to end users by adobe for an update, then you have another problem, which would be > 1 billion downloaded best!

If it's so expensive to Adobe to "develop, maintain and distribute" flash drive, maybe Adobe should look to make a few changes:

  • Stop requiring direct downloads (they are irritating and considered dangerous)

    • Deliver via the channels of the torrent/cloud/normal add-on: secure, fast and efficient
  • Rewrite your drive (it's already slow, outdated, bloated, buggy, proven risk security, etc.)
  • Open source (what are you afraid of?) We will steal your crappy code, create a better product in less than a year, know that there are really malware?)

"bundles represent a necessary cost-recovery mechanism.

  • Explain why you and Oracle are the only two major software providers who do this
  • Is this the reason why you must group an AV program, to mitigate the cost of garbage on the computers of people fed by force?

To get more technical account users use only your product to avoid legal issues surrounding copyright godawful Adobe Flash there solutions much better flash out there who are in questionable legal territory (although probably safe).

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