[X4U] Evil Google

[John Baltutis]

On 2/20/09, Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com> wrote:
>>On Feb 19, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:
>>
>>>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?
>>
>>Download:
>>
>>EasyFind (free)
>>http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/index.html
>>
>>EasyFind doesn't rely on an index, like Spotlight, it isn't limited
>>to certain directories, like Spotlight, and it will search for
>>invisible files, unlike Spotlight.
>>You should be able to locate the file with EasyFind in a few seconds.
>
> NotLight is the same. As far as I can tell, NotLlight and EasyFind do
> about the same thing, except NotLight is hugely faster than EasyFind.
> Whatever, neither one found the otheg Google file. And yes, I was
> looking for "GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent", not "
> GoodleSoftwareUpdateAgent".

No problem finding things "by name" with the locate command in Terminal, as
long as you run "sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb" to do a complete database
rebuild. BTW, missing app is in
/Users/username/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app