Skype installing crapware without permission.

[El_Commi]

http://www.blogtechnical.com/1115/s...your-systems-without-users-prior-knowledge.bt


Was playing some Red Alert 3, when I minimised to change my music playlist- I noticed skype was installing "Easybits go" without asking me. (In fact, it asked me if I wanted to learn more about playing games on skype- to which I said no.)

Hopefully they tell us whats going on, and why we weren't asked to install junk :<

 

[Rroff]

This along with programs that insist on putting non-essential "helper" processes in startup and background services without prompting (or at the very least an advanced option to disable them) are pet bug bears of mine.

 

[MikeHunt79]

It looks like Skype made an error, they've pulled to update now, but it doesn't really instill much confidence really...