Comments on: Permanently disable Google Software Update on OS X

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:30:08 +0000

Good to know. Thanks man.

By: Dick Guertin

Dick Guertin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:07:31 +0000

Well, here it is almost a year later, and I’m finding GoogleSoftwareUpdate running again. I checked the files in /Library/LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons, and they are still 0-length files. Activity Monitor told me that GSU was launched by “loginwindow”, so I checked my Login Items in System Preferences -> Accounts, and there was no GSU item. So I looked at the Open Files of loginwindow, and found /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate was begin opened and the .bundle was being accessed. I moved GoogleSoftwareUpdate from /Library/Google to /Library/Applications Support/Google using “sudo mv”. That seems to have eliminated the launching of GSU. But it may reappear if I do any other Google software installs.

By: Dick Guertin

Dick Guertin — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:23:38 +0000

I used “chmod 444″ instead, to insure the plist could be read,even though it is empty. Also, I only found the “com.google.keystone.daemon.plist”, not the others. But I’m happy to report, IT WORKS, GoogleSoftwareUpdate no longer is launched by “launchd”. Thanks.