[X4U] Evil Google

[John Baltutis]

On 2/21/09, Ed Gould <edgould1948 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2009, at 11:41 PM, John Baltutis wrote:
>> On 2/20/09,  Ed Gould <edgould1948 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:32 AM, John Baltutis wrote:
>>>> On 2/18/09,  Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/why-googles-sof.html>
>>>>
>>>> Much ado about nothing. Disable com.google.keystone.agent.plist and
>>>> com.google.keystone.daemon.plist and Google Earth 5 runs without
>>>> phoning home, despite what the article purports.
>>>
>>> For those of us who are not MAC inclined what does "disable" mean?
>>> Delete? rename? I cannot find anything for disable plist.
>>
>> Since this is a Mac (not MAC) list, I assumed that all members were Mac
>> inclined-my bad. Disable means to deactivate it; the opposite of enable. In
>> this case, move them from the places that they were stored:
>> /Library/LaunchAgents/ and /Library/LaunchDaemons/. The long- standing way on
>> Macs is to create a folder at the same location, with the same name, and
>>append
>> "(Disabled)" w/o the quotes to the name =>LaunchAgents (Disabled) and
>> LaunchDaemons (Disabled), respectively.
>>
> Thanks for explaining it to me. I have seen the disabled next to
> folders but not files. But I guess it would be the same.

Note that I said you create same-named FOLDERS and append "(Disabled)" to the
FOLDER's name, then you move the offending files into the (Disabled) folders.
If you just renamed the files, they would still be active and continue doing
what they were doing previously.