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Hidden away on a page labeled ' What is Google Software Update?', Google provides the single command you need to run to uninstall Google Software Update from your entire system: sudo /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/install.py -uninstall I never installed any plugins to begin with! Time to do it the hacky way. I had planned to leave the software update installed, but since it's not working and it's really starting to bug me, I'm removing it.Īccording to some discussion on Google Groups, the Google Software Update can only be removed by uninstalling any plugins associated with it (Google Earth, Google Talk, etc). So every other day for the past two weeks I have been prompted to update the Google Talk plugin, and every single time I choose OK this same error message pops up.

Well, even worse than that, when I choose to continue with the update it gives me this message: A few days ago I wrote about how evil Google secretly installed software update on my computer.

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