It never installs itself; some other application that you installed wanted to use Growl and installed it without telling you. Nobody likes that situation; even the folks that created Growl don't seem to be happy about it, but I don't think there's anything they can do about it other than what they have: contact those that have released software that installs Growl without the end user's permission, explain what's happening (and what products are known to do this), and provide an easy way to remove Growl.
AFAIK, there is no way to prevent some future product from ever doing the same thing to you all over again (because the application doing it may not use Growl's installer and might therefore ignore any magic cookie left around as an attempt to communicate your desire to never have Growl installed again). However, your best chance of keeping it from happening again is to read the short page at http://growl.info/thirdpartyinstallations.php follow the instructions with regard to known applications that install Growl without your permission, and download and use the uninstaller. Note: Dropbox in particular will re-install Growl everytime it's launched, unless you turn off the Dropbox preference Show Dropbox notifications (using Growl) Please realize that if you refuse to read the page and follow the instructions, you'll keep having the problem, and there's not a thing anyone can do to change that. On Oct 17, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Birgir wrote: > I've just removed Growl for probably the 4th time from my computer. I > would surely never install it knowingly. I really don't care what it > does, or how it gets distributed, I am not going to read your page for > explanations on frameworks or how this happens - just stop fucking > doing whatever it is you do that makes this thing get into my computer. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > -- eMail: mailto:[email protected] Home page: http://www.smart.net/~rlhamil/ Facebook, MySpace, AIM, Yahoo, etc: ask -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
