Patches that asks to install a gazillion things

[Don]

I really hate whenever you get the latest version of Adobe they always ask you if you want to install 5 other bundled stuff they want. Look, I know they like to spam you with that stuff and I'm okay, but I don't need to be reminded every patch especially when some of these software seems to have a patch every 5 days. Java runtime is another one that never runs out of junk to ask you to reinstall, and you can't exactly just ignore since usually a newer update to the Java runtime means they fixed some vulnerabilty elsewhere. Or how MMORPG makes you click 'I agree' on the EULA each time there's a major patch. If the terms to play the game now requires sacrificing your firstborn, then sure I guess you can put that EULA up, but otherwise I don't really need to know if a typo has been fixed on paragraph #15. I don't think they even changed the EULA, since these documents are supposed to be pretty thorough.

[Zeus]

I just downloaded Adobe Reader 11 for my bud yesterday and it didn't even ask, it just installed McAfee automatically. That was the quickest deleted program in history but still it was annoying I wasn't even asked.

[Shrinweck]

Sometimes it's a checkbox on the website where you download the installer rather than a checkbox in the instsaller itself.

[Zeus]

Sometimes it's a checkbox on the website where you download the installer rather than a checkbox in the instsaller itself.

And I may have missed that. But I seriously doubt it since it's just a "free download" button on their website which downloads an .exe and you just run it. And I ALWAYS look at each page to ensure I don't install nothin' when I'm in the installer, I learned that lesson many moons ago

[Shrinweck]

Last time I updated an Adobe program that required going through their website to hit the download link, I had to manually uncheck a box on the site that otherwise would have bundled McAfee with the program. It's annoying as hell and really easy to miss if you're in a rush, which is why they do it I imagine. If there were alternatives to their programs I'd use them.

[Don]

Pretty much everything has these checkboxes all over the place that bundles a gazillion things. What I don't get is why they ask you each time you get patch the software. It's not even like say a web browser asking you if you want to make it default browser, since at least that's kind of related to what the product is going.

[SineSwiper]

And for every automatic install box, there's a registry key to disable it. These companies would get their asses raked over rusty spikes if they didn't leave an out for IT departments to prevent the accidental install of shit they don't want their clients to have.

Here's one for Java: http://superuser.com/questions/549028/h ... -is-update