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Yes, we can say "class action lawsuit".

I recently had to install Adobe Reader a couple times because I reloaded my computer, got a new hard drive, and reloaded it again. I downloaded the file from adobe.com, double-clicked it, and selected the “custom install” option. I noticed that it had Yahoo Toolbar and Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition as part of the install. Well, I didn’t want any of that crap, so I went back to the web site to do a little looking around for just the file I wanted: plain vanilla adobe reader. That’s when I discovered what had happened. If you go to the download page and simply click the download button when it appears, you don’t get the plain-vanilla install option. But if you go to the page a wait a couple seconds, the opt-out check boxes appear for Yahoo and Photoshop! What is more, the page is carefully coded to have that effect so that more people download the extraneous software and fund adobe. I know, I know, “only a geek would care about that.” But the lawyer in me is also interested because this type of misleading web page may violate one of the new federal laws dealing with advertising software. Can you say “class action law-suit?”

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