kwunder,
No way around it that I know of, it's in the install routine for the program. This began with Microsoft, then Real Networks (love that company) and now others are joining the bandwagon.
I can only tell you to track you installs.
I've notice this from PowrerArchiver, MR Tech's systray, imported bookmarks from Netscape, MSN Messenger (did I ask for that!)
reghakr