Annoying Freeware

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This really annoys me. This was checked by default, and if I was operating in the usual mode of Next, Next, Next it would have installed software I don't want on my machine. I certainly did not expect this from VMWare.

 

 

 

Yes, it is a free product, so what? It is still annoying. They even list this in their site:

"Integrated Google Search. VMware Player includes Google search capabilities, fully integrated for conveniently searching the web without launching a browser."

I guess they didn't hear about the single responsibility principal.  I fail to see the connection between virtual machines and searching the web.

Moreover, Google seems to be very keen on put their toolbar in every product possible, but this just give it very bad reputation in my eyes.