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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by _lce0 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @12:26PM (#8881196)
Whenever you install Chrome (not sure if other Google product that does the same),

you got GoogleUpdate as ..

  - startup trigger
  - firefox addon (!!)
  - scheduled task
And it's not Google alone, big players are the worst malware distributors as part of they _own_ products

Stallman was ALWAYS right.

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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by username223 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @05:22PM (#8883030)
Ah, GoogleUpdate... Trying out Chrome gave me the unfortunate opportunity to learn about launchctl(1), Apple's version of cron(8). I haven't used Apple software on Windows in awhile, or vice versa, but I bet both are similarly awful. I didn't know about the Firefox addon, but that's a clever little extra bit of evil.
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