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. 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 > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
