![]() Google Update on some of Google websites) is a program to install requested software and keep it up to date and running in the background without your knowledge on your computer. Like everything nowadays, I did a quick search on the Internet, and turns out there are full pages of search results related to this topic on the Internet, including an article from called "Why Google's software update tool is evil" that dated back to 2009! The only Google software that I have on my Mac is Chrome browser. When I trying to find out why my cron job doesn't work (just to be clear, it has nothing to do with what I described in this article) a couple of days ago, I came across tons of quite verbose logs generated by a background daemon called GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent on my MacBook Pro's system.log. Google Keystone (Google's codename for its Google Software Update) has "mutated" since I published this article, be sure you read the "Update on July 2019" below. Google Software Update is not a malware, but it behaves like a one. ![]() ![]() ![]() I never know there is a software called Google Software Update that is installed in my Mac without my knowledge and sending data back to google more frequent than it is necessary until a couple of days ago. ![]()
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