Just found out about GoogleUpdate, a Google service that installs itself to check for updates to local Google installations continuously. I’m not entirely certain how often it checks, but I’m the kind who thinks checking for updates while the application is running should be enough… Shouldn’t it?

It basically ninja-installs itself as soon as you install a Google application (in my case, after a Google chat trial with David) and doesn’t really have an uninstaller. It came back even after I killed the process and disabled the service, because there were some extensions still active in Firefox; it appears to have given up now.

Some useful links: The invisible GoogleUpdate.exe, How to remove Google update.