[X4U] Evil Google

[Robert MacLeay]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:23:47 -0800, Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com wrote:
>> Anyone know what this background automatic updater is called so we
>> can delete it along with Google Earth?
>> 
>>> <http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/why-googles-sof.html>
> 
> I just activated Activity Monitor, and it was really obvious which
> ones (2 of them) were implicated with Google. I stopped them then
> went and deleted them.
> 
> Then I looked up their names using NotLight, and found one was at:
> ~/LibraryApplication Support/GoogleSoftwareUpdates/manifest.html
> 
> I deleted it.
> 
> But the other, called "GoodleSoftwareUpdateAgent," I can't find where
> it really lives. I want to delete it. Does anyone know where it IS,
> on the hard drive?


There is an ongoing discussion of this on the MacInTouch site at
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/index.html#d16feb2009

( short link: http://tinyurl.com/bp9uzf )

Instructions have been posted there on finding and deactivating the
components.