TSGL: Google Toolbar Notifier

[Russell W. Coover]

It simply "notifies" you when an update to Google Toolbar and/or other
Google apps is/are available. It is innocuous. 

But Google, as good as their search engine is, is getting a bit big for my
blood. And in their quest to enlarge, they seem to also engorge, that is, to
swallow up everything they can. They appear to want to be the monopoly that
everybody seems to think that Windows is now. They are, in my opinion,
dangerously close to that in some areas. 

That is not to say that I do not like Google. I love their search engine and
I use and like their gmail. And Google Earth is an amazing application. 

But with just these three apps, I'm sure, they know much more about me and
my habits than I am comfortable in having them know. But I continue to use
them, and, I guess, so will many other people. They do have quality free
applications.  

Russ

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Mike Ferrell
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:29 AM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: Google Toolbar Notifier

Thanks Russ.  I just removed the Google Toolbar completely from IE because 
it was causing some problems, although for now I left it on Firefox.  Can 
you please explain the "notifier".  Just why does it occasionaly request to 
connect to the internet?  Is it just for some kind of update to the toolbar 
or something more ominous?  I'm just not sure if I should allow or reject 
the notifier requests while I allow the toolbar to remain on FF.
Thanks again,
Mike F.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell W. Coover" <coover at fastmail.fm>
To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Google Toolbar Notifier


> Mike,
>
> The fact that you cannot disable Google Toolbar Notifier is a bug in the
> Google Toolbar that (according to Google) has been eliminated in the 
> latest
> version. If you really want to continue to use the Google Toolbar, I 
> suggest
> that you remove the present Toolbar and then download and install the 
> newest
> version http://google.toolbar.com . At that time, disable the Notifier.
>
> Myself? I won't allow Google Toolbar on my computer. I don't want it. I
> don't need it, and I'm very unhappy when I see it rear its ugly head (as 
> it
> has when I wasn't so careful while installing some other application). I 
> do
> use Google as my default search engine, but I use it through an old, but
> reliable freeware application called "Search Bar" (which is also the name 
> of
> a separate, but not so worthy Malware application). You can find this one
> from Patrick Deal at http://go.to/searchbar .
>
> Russ Coover
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Mike Ferrell
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:26 PM
> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> Subject: TSGL: Google Toolbar Notifier
>
> WinPatrol notified me that a BHO was recently installed named Google 
> Toolbar
> Notifier.  Meanwhile ZoneAlarm notified me that Google Toolbar Notifier 
> was
> trying to connect to the internet.  I let WinPatrol block it and I denied
> the ZA request.  Although I use Google as a search engine 99.99% of the 
> time
> I don't like it blocking use of another search engine (if that is what it
> would do) and I don't like it automatically connecting to the internet
> because I didn't know what the purpose was.  Just call me cautious.  I 
> just
> didn't know enough about it to feel safe in allowing everything that was
> happening at the moment, but now I'm wondering if I made a mistake.  Would

> I
> have anything to worry about if I allowed all this?  And am I missing
> anything important if I don't allow it?
> Mike F.
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