> Even Apple and Adobe don't actively turn their update services back on when you run their applications if you have explicitly disabled them, though, at least

> Even Apple and Adobe don't actively turn their update services back on when you run their applications if you have explicitly disabled them, though, at least not in any version of any of their software that I've come across. You can explicitly disable their auto-update mechanisms in the UI, I'm not sure if that's the case for Chrome, but force-closing the GoogleCrashHandler process isn't really comparable to an explicit UI toggle.