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You have to be very careful allowing Adobe to install anything on your computer, specifically Flash or Acrobat.

Adobe's installation software normally gives you a choice to decline Chrome, or to install an Adobe "tool bar" or "search bar," but you have to make that choice in the very first window they show, the first window you see when you decide to go along with their "suggestion" that you do an upgrade.

If you miss that question — and you have to read very carefully to find it — you will automatically get Chrome and their "search bar," which intercepts everything you search for and sends it to Adobe and who knows where else.

If you miss that question — and you have to read very carefully to find it — you will automatically get Chrome and their "search bar," which intercepts everything you search for and sends it to Adobe and who knows where else.

It's worse than that!

Sometimes chrome will hijack your browser settings.
So, if you click on a link in, say, an Outlook email, it opens the link in chrome. BUT if you have deleted chrome because you didn't want it in the first place, the link won't work at all, and requires a registry hack to fix.

I got a message here a month or so ago on my Win 7 machine that my version of Adobe Acrobat was out of date and I needed to install the latest version. I did so, making sure to note that I was installing it from the Adobe website. After I was done, I noticed a program called TrueKey installed on my machine. I wasn't given a choice or notice that it was going to be installed. It is apparently a program that they publish that allows you to unlock your PC with your face (they're apparently assuming you have a camera on your machine).

I wasn't able to uninstall it using Control Panel, as it didn't show up there. I found an uninstall executable in my Programs folder and "uninstalled" it there, only to find out that it STILL wasn't uninstalled. I tried to delete the executables from Windows Explorer and was told I need Administrator privilege. My standard account IS the Administrator. I finally was able to delete enough of the executables to make it stop working, but I was ready to strangle a bunch of those sons a b!tches by the time I was done.

FU, Adobe.