![]() Remove the Google Earth plug-in to prevent future update reminders. Today we inadvertently turned it back on. It appears that a while back we had disabled the auto-updater for the Mac Google Earth Plugin for Safari/Firefox, possibly because of this very issue. ![]() (One report indicates that the update pushed to OS X may have been for Windows.) A Google Earth engineer, Viet-Tam Luu, confirmed in its support forum that there was a problem: The Google Earth update was pushed out this way, but users (including this reporter) who entered their password found that the update didn’t take place. ![]() The problem wasn’t limited, but occurred worldwide. There’s no front-end to manage software updates, nor does Google provide instructions for removing this background process. The company’s Mac software installs a background agent, which regularly checks for app updates and pushes them to your computer for Google Earth, Chrome, and other Google software. You can delete the Google Earth plug-in that caused it or remove the software updater entirely. Instead, it seems to be a bad update transmitted through Google’s background software updater-something you probably didn’t even know you had. If you’re one of the many Mac OS X users who received an installation dialog for Google Earth Update Helper asking you to enter your password, it wasn’t malware.
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