[bbrtyth]

Because of people like this (the straw was Growl installing itself for the third time), I've had to completely change the permissions on particularly vulnerable folders in OS X. Anyone creating software, if you are not already aware of this: installing anything that is not completely and clearly explained beforehand makes you a despicable wretch.

[caiusdurling]

FWIW growl doesn't install itself, applications that use it are _supposed_ to offer to install growl for you, but there's been a few that don't and just force it on you.

The growl devs really really hate those applications - http://growl.info/thirdpartyinstallations.php has more info.

[bbrtyth]

The third party applications are using the Growl framework, yes? Did they write the extra code to install Growl? If so, I am sorry. If, as I suspect, they did not, why does the Growl framework not ask the user when that method is invoked?