Despite this, when installed with the following command line, the installer still attempts to download the toolbar.
My command line is /SP- /VERYSILENT /LOADINF=pdfc.inf
ESET prevents this download but the installer hangs in the process. pdfforgeToolbar-stub-1.exe can be found running in the task manager. Ending this process allows the installer to finish properly.
I've created a workaround which I will share here for anyone else who has this issue. The following is a batch/cmd file which will execute the installer and then, up to 12x over the next 2 minutes, try to kill the toolbar stub process.
```
@echo off
start pdfcreator-1_0_2_setup.exe /SP- /VERYSILENT /LOADINF=pdfc.inf
for /l %a in (1,1,12) do @(sleep 10
taskkill /im pdfforgeToolbar-stub-1.exe && goto success)
:success
<hr /><p>This is for XP and uses the <tt>sleep</tt> command from the 2003 Resource Kit. If you don't have the Resource Kit and can't use the <tt>sleep</tt> command, you can fudge it with <tt>ping localhost</tt>. On Win7 (and Vista, I think) you need to use the <tt>timeout</tt> command in place of the <tt>sleep</tt> command.</p><p> </p>
If you are using a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit systems, changing the "dir=" to the DefaultDestDir above will result in proper install location on 64-bit systems. I don't have any 32-bit systems to test this on however. Could someone please test this inf on a 32-bit platform and let me know if this works.
Make that 0.98. It seems this behavior may have always been present but it wasn't being caught by Symantec. I switched to ESET a few months ago and that led to me discovering this issue.