![]() ![]() They also provide a back button so you can easily remove anything unintended without having to go through the whole set up process from the start again. The best 'free' software providers show exactly what items are going to be installed before you finally click the install button. This is not the sort thing any respectable software provider should be doing and is enough to get such programs removed from many review sites and PC magazines' recommended software lists. That's where Unchecky comes in as a useful safety net because there are a number of sneaky tricks that may be employed, like greying the opt out button or making it as small as possible and making the continue button bigger than needed to encourage you to click without checking, or unchecking in this case. Unchecky is a program installed to prevent such easy oversights when installing 'free' software from unknown sources which may include unwanted extras by default when they do give you the chance to opt out, even if not made clear. Please respond to our posts, and tell me if the install of Chrome on my system could have been done without my approval (and if so, why is this permitted?). In fact it's behavior that comes to close to malware that 'infects' a system and then tries to sell a program to clean up the infection (yes I know that Chrome is not an infection, but it is something I don't want on this system). This is not behavior I expect from a program that is supposed to protect me. ![]() I'm willing to revert my system and rerun step #1 to confirm this).ģ) I uninstalled Chrome through the Control Panel.Ĥ) Avast then warns me that the uninstall was incomplete, and then when I click on the link to "completely" remove the traces of Chrome (all registry entries) effectively tries to sell me a program to remove the install (that I did not want to begin with). Here are the details:ġ) I updated an existing occurrence of Avast.Ģ) Chrome was installed (As far as I can tell, without my permission. However, the same issue happened today to me, so I decided to quote their post and add my own experience (and hopefully get a reply to the both of us). The above post by artra was made in the wrong subforum, so that's probably why nobody ever responded to it. ![]()
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