Wat dafak? Latest flash player updater installs McAfee Security something WITHOUT ASKING?

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So I got a notification for a flash update today and their installer installed some McAfee shit WITHOUT EVEN GIVING ME ANY OPTION TO CANCEL?

This is a new quantity of what the fuck level is this shit.

P.S. This is for firefox, not sure if the flash updater exe is the same for gayhrome or shiternet sexplorer... or something more exotic that you might be using, coded in BANG COCK.
 
Well the question is how you recieved the update. If it was through their webpage (as in they sent you there) then for a year or more you have to uncheck the box before the download. Otherwise the download your getting isn't going to ask you. If it was through the flash player updater already on the system or through the firefox plugin manager then I would be concerned.

Gayhrome doesn't have a flash player updater, Flash is built into Chrome and updates with chrome updates. Its sandboxed to keep malicious shit at bay.
 
Oh, I must've not noticed the different download on the web page, or maybe there's no choice anymore? For some reason, it sent me to a web page even though it popped up with the autoupdater. Usually it updates itself, but not this time.

Anyway, I hope adobe got some good money for this bullshit... can't wait for flash to die eventually.
 
They have changed the main site quite a bit but the behaviour is for sure the same. Since this was in chrome I selected "I have another browser/os" so the screen might be slightly different.

Image:
FireShot Screen Capture #005 - 'Adobe - Install a different version of Adobe Flash Player' - get.png

But thats one example of the checkbox. WHen you uncheck it the download goes down to 16.9MB. So its basically a pre empt and you didn't say no there so they wont ask you.

I never wanted to switch to Chrome but i started having issues with firefox on android and wanted to keep sync so i switched to Chrome on both. No real regrets. I use the exact same plugins on both. Including fireshot for the screen caps.

Edit:
Flash Player is integrated with Internet Explorer in Windows 8.
You do not need to install Flash Player.
Click to expand...
Looks like Firefox is late to the built in flash party LOL! I tried to see if the screen was different but i don't have FF or Opera installed atm.
 
Firefox is going in a different direction:

Shumway, Mozilla’s HTML5-Based Flash Player Replacement, Lands In Firefox Nightly | TechCrunch

I can't say I dislike the idea, although it will probably never be perfect.

Then again, 99% of my use of flash is for video and audio these days, and HTML5 handles audio/video quite well. Even youtube is interested in separating from a closed-source tech which is long overdue for replacement, at least for media:

YouTube (as an added bonus you also get speed control :-D )

I'm completely disinterested in flash games, although I can see that being a valid continuing use of flash. Then again, I've also seen the unity browser plugin in quite a few places... so there's your competition right there. If unity gets a somewhat decent install base and some nice games (which actually started appearing slowly, even though I was EXTREMELY skeptical about ANYTHING coming out of that engine when it was really new a few years ago), flash will eventually writhe.

Chrome would be my second choice if FF didn't exist. I dislike it based on the simple fact that I dislike anything that comes out of google. The UI also reminded me of ghey last time I tried it which was a few years ago. I expect anything that runs on windows and I use in a window to use system-themed UI elements (or at least have the option to), not something that reminded me more of a combination of a bad mobile UI port and a web page. The UI just turned me off badly.

P.S. I never saw those options on the web page it sent me to, again maybe it's deliberate. I would've definitely noticed if that was the one I went to... anyway it's ridic. late, and I need to go to bed nao q_q .
 
The only thing that upsets me about HTML 5 video, which the short time my website was back up served. Is the fact the refusal to support H.264 in all browsers. All because they are worried that one day MPEG LA is going to want to show up and demand royalties. If were going to create a divide between these open source codecs, some of which are still subject to patents and the widest supported format on the planet we mind as well keep flash because its the same situation.

Having to store video in both WebM and H.264 pretty much limits me to keeping very few high quality videos on my own website and continuing to dump the rest on YouTube. Its a matter of space for me not bandwidth.

Cisco stepped up to the plate and paid the license fee's for an H.264 codec and then giving it away for free. Its probably a bit late for early HTML 5 video sites like mine but its a good move for the future.

My website should be back up permanently summer 2014 on the 10 year anniversary of it going down for redesign lol. I got my first commercial site contract right after I decided to redesign the site and I never got back around to it.
 
I have chrome and when I got the update thing it sent me to the page like the screen shot above and it gave me the option to not install the mcafee scan tool
 
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