Just turned on my win7 pc to keep it up to date with updates and the all too familiar Adobe box came up.. 'An update to Flashplayer is available'. You can put these things off for so long but they keep coming back so I thought, ok.. do your stuff and be done with it. The usual boxes came up followed by the download box. Before my very eyes, the swine was downloading/installing the update to Flashplayer PLUS Google Toolbar and Google Chrome WTF do companies do this If I'd wanted either Google Toolbar or Google Chrome, I'd get em myself.. I don't need em forced on me
OK.. it took less time to uninstall them than it did to download but when you're not on unlimited bandwidth and approaching your monthly limit as I am.. I can really do without @rseholes like Adobe using up my valuable resources. There was no option.. no warning.. the download page came up and there were Toolbar and Chrome coming down with Flashplayer and no opportunity to abort. Beware fellow pc'ers
ATB
DaveB
I feel your pain!
Two things that annoy me. Downloads that install other, unwanted stuff. Internet links that take you somewhere completely different just to get you to download something you didn't want.
Searching for Nvidia Drivers yesterday via Google. The top link which was called something like `Nvidia Drivers Download` took me to a site which wanted me to download a driver manager. Stupidly I said yes, because I thought it was legit. Then started scanning my PC and popping up loads of other stuff directing me to payware tools with nice credit card boxes. Needless to say I uninstalled and went to the legit Nvidia site.
In fact Google is rapidly becomming spam unwanted link central!
The Kindle Fire HD requires you to pay £10 on purchase to remove the advertising. It should be the other way around!
I often get a situation where I have a check option to load a homepage or browser which I either uncheck or select decline to disable....but it does it anyway.
Some tool bars that get loaded even remain after they've been un installed...so they must have a back up copy somewhere else.
As far a Flash goes...I keep getting messages saying I need Flash when I have it and the vid plays other times, or I need to upgrade to a later version
If I do upgrade the install fails, if I don't it carries on playing after it's told me it can't.
So daily I get the message and after several attempts to upgrade I no longer bother to try.
Makes no sense.
Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
Yes.. the link that sends you to where you don't want to go!
I had that a couple of weeks ago. Nev sent me a link with a soundfile to try. I clicked on the link and it all looked kosha but for the fact there must have been 3 or 4 different download buttons of varying sizes. It wasn't clear which one to hit so I hit the most likely candidate and ended up at a site selling a download manager! I think the 3rd or 4th I tried (the smallest of the download buttons) actually did the trick. I was sure ready to call it a day had the last one not worked
You really have to pay attention to download buttons these days as many will lob a search engine you've never heard of on your pc or something equally unwanted in the same fashion Adobe are doing with FlashPlayer. Some are easy to remove (Toolbox and Chrome being two) but others are a bugger to shift
Dave there was a box to untick in that FlashPlayer update...You need to untick it to prevent Google Chrome being installed. I must admit that I have made the same mistake a couple of times on my wife's machines and then had to uninstall it
For me, it is now a standard check before installing any upgrade - "Where's the unwanted 'free' stuff?"
I pay AUD 60/mth for 8GB of bandwidth. Tricking me into using some of that for something I never asked for is theft, or false pretences, or something. It certainly should not be legal. The default should be 'without extras' and it should not be difficult to amend existing Opt-in/Opt out legislation to include the Adobe setup and others like it.
Readers' Digest has been successfully prosecuted several times for this kind of trickery. That is how the problen should be addressed - what chance do you or I have, going to a small claims tribunal to recover $7.50 (1GB worth) of stolen bandwidth?
MikeW
PS: Of course the $60 includes the 4G wireless service, as well as 8GB of download - but regardless, some of my bandwidth is being stolen.
WTF do companies do this 
If I'd wanted either Google Toolbar or Google Chrome, I'd get em myself.. I don't need em forced on me 
