Why does adobe flash update by default try to install their security product?

[GaryatGasman]

I like adobe products. What I don't like is the continual push on installations to install other products (i.e. security) when installing something as simple as a flash update.

It becomes a bit tiring after a while to continually having to carefully survey every install/update to make sure that something I don't want is by default added to my system.

How about making everything optional that is not directly related to what I am installing or upgrading.

Eventually I will just stop using the adobe products and will find some other company that does not do this. I hope all the companies marketing departments

are listening to this. I am sure that I am only the tip of the iceburg of people who are tired of this deceptive practice and will move somewhere else where this is not done.

Gary

[C_F_McBlob]

Gary

There are "standalone" installers that don't have the "bundled junk"

Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer)

Flash Player Plug-in (All other browsers)

Adobe doesn't push them because they offest costs by having McAfee/Norton/Google pay them for each download that IS bundled. And complain as you (and everyone else) might, the practice ISN'T going to change.