On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Michael Weisman <[email protected]> wrote: > Little Snitch (http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html) > warns me from time-to-time about a Google Updater trying to access an > update server. > > Although I don't see any processes running on my work mac (which has > GE5 among other Google tools) which jump out as a Google Updater.
Yeah, I have Little Snitch turned on as well, and have goosed its rules to notify me on all "Google" activities, but nothing related to the updater. Hope they haven't renamed their updater as some other daemon such as "httpd," those crafty Google buggers. I quite like them, but just found the new notification in their TOS a bit ominous. > > Michael > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: >>> It's GoogleUpdate.exe >> >> sorry, I should have said, I am using a Mac. I was expecting to see >> something like that, but don't see anything... GE5 is running, and >> here is what I get >> >> [01:54 PM] ~$ps -aux | grep 'oogle' >> punkish 896 3.7 2.7 1149512 111928 ?? R 1:52PM 0:10.56 >> /Applications/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Earth >> -psn_0_622744 >> punkish 921 0.0 0.0 599780 460 s000 R+ 1:54PM 0:00.00 >> grep oogle >> >> >> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:42 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> "This software will update any Google software on your computer when >>>> new versions become available. Google Software Update verifies updates >>>> and is safer than downloading files from the Internet yourself. >>>> >>>> To continue using Google Earth, you must accept the new Google privacy >>>> policies and allow Google Software Update to run in the background on >>>> your computer." >>>> >>>> am trying to determine what the heck runs "in the background on (my) >>>> computer" but so far haven't discovered anything particularly ominous. >>>> Anyone else want to shed light on this? >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Puneet Kishor >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Geowanking mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ >> Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ >> Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
