Applications that install Growl without your permission
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Applications that install Growl without your permission
So, Growl got on your system and you don't know how. What happened?
There are two ways this could have happened.
One way is that you were prompted to install Growl and you approved that installation. Either you didn't read the dialog box or you hit the wrong button; either way, you installed Growl without meaning to.
The other is that something installed Growl without your permission.
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We distribute a framework to application developers to make it easy for them to use Growl in their applications. They don't have to write all of the pages of code necessary to send messages to and receive messages from Growl; they simply drop in our framework and write a few lines to tell the framework what to do.
We currently offer two versions of that framework. One of our frameworks does not and cannot install Growl. Our other framework will offer to install Growl the first time the application tries to send a Growl notification.
The key phrase there is offer to install. Our framework, when developers use it according to our instructions, asks for your permission before installing Growl, and won't install Growl if you refuse. You can also tell it to go away and not ask you about Growl again.
However, there are a couple of applications that bypass our permission check, or don't use our installer framework in the first place, and install Growl without your permission. Let us be clear:
We do not endorse applications installing Growl without your permission. In fact, we hate it. Nothing should ever install anything on your system without your knowledge and your explicit consent.