Parallels 9 Annoyance

Roger Henriques lists at rhen.com
Thu Sep 12 12:50:18 PDT 2013


The Register had an article on this matter dated yesterday, and mentioned that Parallels was issuing an update to their installer in response to numerous complaints. Perhaps you got the new installer - if so, that must set some kind of record for corporate backtracking...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/11/parallels_trojan_access_update_brouhaha/

Roger H.
lists at rhen.com

On 12-09-2013, at 3:15 PM, Charles Brown wrote:

> I just installed Parallels 9 this morning following the general procedure you described and didn't experience the problems you reported with Parallels Access. I did notice that I was prompted to install an update prior to completing the install process. Perhaps this fixes the issue you reported.
> 
> On Sep 12, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Rodney <rodney at joatamon.org> wrote:
> 
>> My efforts were in vain.  When I rebooted my Mac today, I got a pop-up window asking me to sign into Parallels Access.  The preferences pane for Parallels shows Access as installed, and sure enough, the app is in my applications folder.  There is no uninstall procedure.  This was rather annoying.




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