I expected better

[traveller42]

Just have a nasty experience.

Adobe Flash has been whining about needing to be updated for a while now. I finally let it try to do the update, but that was failing. I figured it was just a bad network connection. Well, Firefox just got updated and had a banner about updating Flash, so I went that route. I downloaded the installer and fired it off. I

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[maiac]

When I used Firefox's installer for the Flash update, I got McAfee something-or-other with it, with no notice that the additional program was being installed. Fortunately, it added an icon to my desktop, so I knew it had been installed and could promptly uninstall it. I had McAfee for years, but recently uninstalled the whole thing to replace it with an antivirus/firewall program that costs a lot less and doesn't lock up my computer when it updates the virus database. I was annoyed that McAfee was (re)installed without my permission, also because it's not good to have two antivirus programs on one computer.