Adobe flashplayer and McAfee security, why?

[voyagervc]

I have been using adobe products both professionally and at home for some time now. Last time I updated adobe flash player it gave me the option of not loading mcafee security and I therefore didn't load it as it causes serious conflicts with much of the software that I have. This time, without warning, mcafee security has been loaded and I am now stuck with trying to solve many conflicts. I therefore have 3 questions:

1/ Why does adobe insist on bundling software, that people don't want want, with their software without telling them?

2/ Does adobe look at the web forums, other than it's own, prior to bundling software with their products to see what reactions people have towards the bundled software?

3/ Has adobe got a contract with mcafee to get their product bundled as many people may be moving away from mcafee due to security issues?

I used to use mcafee for my virus protection (newly updated) until I had some software deleted by AVG (which at the time was over 20 days old) due to a malicious trogen virus embeded in the software. From that point on I have not trusted mcafee.

If possible I would like these questions answered, as would many others worldwide.

[User_Unknow]

I recevied many feedbacks about this offer. Nobody like it. If you want Flash Player - you don't need to install McAfee.

Better put disabled this checkbox by default because 8 from 10 users already installed varius antivirus software.

[voyagervc]

Unfortunately any image you uploaded, to show the location of the checkbox to disable McAfee, was stripped out of the reply by adobe.

I am usually pretty thorough when going through menus on loading products or updates and there was no warning and no checkbox. Thank you for trying to help.

What I have done so far is set my firewall to kill any attempt of McAfee updating or running, in the hope that this works.

[jeromiec83223024]

Moved to the Installing Flash Player forum, as this question is not specific to the Flash Player 11.7 Beta.