My first thought is No thank you. My second thought is can I
disable the background updater after downloading.
Run the Lingon editor (tuppis.com/lingon/) to edit the launchd
configuration file. Under the User Daemons tab is the Google keystone
daemon. You can disable it from there. (But will it
I find this very very surprising.
On the Windows side, Google is one of the least evil updaters I've run
into. It uses the windows scheduler to run its updates, so it doesn't leave
cruft in memory, in the task bar, or in startup. It is scheduled to run
only when the machine is idle.
In fact,
No worries! I can tinker with it.
Another thought I had regarding updaters is that generally the updaters
on my computers are from Apple or from open source like Mozilla. Google
is a commercial company. That's why I'm more cautious about them.
Thanks
Tom Piwowar wrote:
My first thought is
I haven't used any Google software on my Mac in a while so maybe this is
already an old issue, but I downloaded Google Earth 5.0 and got this on
installation:
Google Software Update is about to be installed.
This software will update any Google software on your computer when new
versions
About as threatening as the os x updater...or any other you have. What kind
of threats are you worried about?
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jordan jor17...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't used any Google software on my Mac in a while so maybe this is
already an old issue, but I downloaded
My first thought is No thank you. My second thought is can I
disable the background updater after downloading. Let us know what
you end up doing.
Richard P.
I haven't used any Google software on my Mac in a while so maybe this is
already an old issue, but I downloaded Google Earth 5.0 and got
I know you can disable it on windows...should be able to on os x.
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Richard P. richs...@gmail.com wrote:
My first thought is No thank you. My second thought is can I
disable the background updater after downloading. Let us know what
you end up doing.
Richard
Richard P. wrote:
My first thought is No thank you. My second thought is can I
disable the background updater after downloading. Let us know what
you end up doing.
Yes, that is pretty much the way my thinking went.
I'm sure I'm hopelessly old fashioned in this, but I'm still cautious of
If an exploit pops up in software - notably Flash or similar, if
you've disabled the automatic updates then you've seriously
compromised your system. Exploits these days do NOT require that you
run a file to get infected. Constant and hopefully automatic updates
are your only protection.
I'm
My first thought is No thank you. My second thought is can I
disable the background updater after downloading.
Search the drive for GoogleSoftwareUpdate. I found 2
GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle files on my drive. Open the bundle and find
GoogleSoftwareUpdate.app and GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon
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