Legal or not..? Unasked for software riding in on downloads.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

gregrocker said:

Restore Point?...

DUH! I told you I would hate myself. I'm going back to bed.

Sorry milady.

That's interesting. I need to disable tamper protection in Norton for an RP to complete successfully. That may have changed in recent versions as I just automatically do that now.

kado897 said:

That's interesting. I need to disable tamper protection in Norton for an RP to complete successfully. That may have changed in recent versions as I just automatically do that now.

Can't hurt. Less likely to have issues. Although antivirus companies should be well aware of this feature, it has been around for a long time.

kado897 said:

I find that RPs do work but you need to disable your AV first.

gregrocker said:

I have restored before accidental SneakWare install and it seemed to work OK, although I didn't need to disable MSE.

There are risks to restoring if there is infection involved since it can get into Restore Points. So I'd scan for infection first just to be safest.

sygnus21 said:

Yeah I've never had to disable my AV's as well. Have Norton on my Win 8.1 machine and MSE on the W7 machine.

I'm running Avast and I have no problems creating new Restore Points.

With reference to my earlier posts, I do manually create Restore Points in addition to the automatic system created ones.
I used one last week without any issues.
I just don't rely on them.

For the OP -

Here is a good way to attempt to avoid the 'extras' - Avoid extras when installing free software

And it is perfectly legal for anyone to couple freeware together, which you agree to download because you clicked the link that they offered. It is illegal for people to intentionally install malware on your computer, though I suspect with our broad definition of malware, some of it may even be legal