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Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/14/12 9:10 PM After trying Google Chrome, tcpblock on os x 10.7.4 is blocks four calls each hour.  whois on Netscan identifies these ip address  173.194.33.46, 32, 0, 14   :443 as Google sites.  
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/14/12 9:14 PM The Netscan report is
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour Nortonius 6/15/12 5:56 AM VirusBarrier X6 is giving me the same information as reported by TomMcIn, and these repetitive calls are extremely annoying: could someone, preferably from Google, please explain what ksfetch is, so that we can decide whether we want to block it or n
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour seishin 6/16/12 4:20 AM I'm having the same issue. My firewall sends a multitude of notifications daily from "ksfletch (nobody)" that can't be Accepted or Denied to make the notifications stop. I've set the firewall with 43 Rules re: ksfetch to try to block the popups from
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour Nortonius 6/16/12 5:58 AM I just 'uninstalled' Google Chrome (according to this anyway http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/259328-how-uninstall-google-chrome-completely.html ) but I'm still getting notifications about ksfetch...
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/16/12 9:35 AM I have Quit Google Chrome and still get messages.  I have Shutdown and Restarted my system and still get the messages.  I have looked in the Activity Monitor (All Processes) for names like ksfetch and google chrome and nothing is there.  The IP addre
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour Nortonius 6/16/12 9:49 AM If it's any help, I found ksfetch in Activity Monitor by looking for it there before denying its call. I stopped ksfetch in Activity Monitor, but as it seems to come and go it may simply re-activate itself and call again, we shall see! BTW I also tri
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour seishin 6/16/12 10:09 AM Where are the Anonymous Hackers when we need them?
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/16/12 10:20 AM The Anonymous Hackers seem to be working for Google as no one from Google bothers to explain what is happening, even after we stop using Chrome.
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/16/12 10:33 AM Activated tcpblock -m to log each network access including the uid and pid.   Turns out they start a new process, make a number of blocked requests, kill the pid then start another process and make more requests.  All told them made 12 requests. on t
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour Nortonius 6/16/12 10:39 AM Duh, yeah why didn't I think to look for the parent process before quitting ksfetch in Activity Monitor?! It just called again, I already denied it before reading the above but it looks like I'll have another chance to look for the parent process...
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour dr2chase 6/16/12 11:04 AM Contents of /Library/Google (on 10.6.8) and /Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist both look like candidates to me.  I see the calls from LittleSnitch -- part of the problem is that each new instance of ksfetch appears to be a new bina
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/16/12 12:41 PM tcpblock does not seem to have a way to stop the questionable process that is making the outside connection.  Have asked the developer if a stop is possible.  I can wait until your football game is over.
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/16/12 12:54 PM Using 10.7.4 and the only thing in /Library/Google is a GoogleSoftwareUpdate folder. /Library/LaunchAgents has nothing for Google. Need to look into how 10.7.4 supports timed starting applications.  Just haven't recalled the magic word that will have
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour dr2chase 6/16/12 1:23 PM I am pretty sure ksfetch is software update.  And for me, "keystone" in com.google.keystone.agent.plist looks suspiciously like an abbreviation for "keystone". I also experimentally did a "sudo chmod 000 /Library/Google".  Been quiet so far.
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/16/12 3:17 PM Found ~/Library/Google/Google Chrome Brand.plist  created on Jun 7 which is about when ksfetch started to appear. Will Delete it and see what happens. There is a folder named GoogleSoftwareUpdate which likely handles Google updates. The other file is
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour Nortonius 6/16/12 3:33 PM Activity Monitor reports that the parent process of ksfetch is Google Software Update! Can't find a folder of this name on my iMac...
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/16/12 4:40 PM In    /Users/tomm/Library/LaunchAgents   there is a file   com.google.keystone.agent.plist  and in that plist is a string for   <string>/Users/tomm/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdat
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour Nortonius 6/17/12 12:54 AM Ah ok I suppose searching Finder for 'GoogleSoftwareUpdate' didn't reveal it because we're not supposed to look in the Library these days – sigh... I found it by following the path you gave. First thing I did was dump the whole folder 'GoogleSoftware
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour seishin 6/17/12 5:48 AM I'd not posted to these boards prior to this issue happening. Is there a point at which Google Tech gets involved or are we left to problem solve this & bump heads on our own? I'm getting kind of pissed at the wall of silence. HEY GOOGLE!!! FIX THE P
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour Nortonius 6/17/12 7:09 AM 7 hours and still no ksfetch calls for me! :) Fingers crossed, anyway... See previous post for what I did. Yes it doesn't look like any Google techs are paying attention to this, I couldn't even find a simple support link anywhere in Google, is there
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/17/12 8:00 AM I went back to a "pre Chrome" version of the file com.google.keystone.agent.plist  in  /Users/tomm/Library/LaunchAgents The unexpected accesses continued to happen. I had renamed com.google.keystone.agent.plist  com.google.keystone.agent.plistxxx in
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour TomMcIn 6/17/12 8:01 AM When you are caught cheating, maybe it is best to lie low.
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour dr2chase 6/17/12 8:28 AM What worked for me was "sudo chmod 000 /Library/Google/".  Presumably I'll need to manually take care of updates, or I can just make it 755 again when I feel like letting ksfetch run.
Re: Four calls by ksfetch each hour Nortonius 6/17/12 8:33 AM It just occurred to me to look at some dates: the GoogleSoftwareUpdate folder was created on 26 November 2009, but it was last modified on 12 June 2012, just five days ago! That's about when I started getting these ksfetch calls (which I seem to have
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