omaha: Won't Uninstall

I installed the Google Earth plugin to view something in a website and then 
uninstalled it shortly afterwards. However, Google Update which supposedly 
should uninstall itself has stayed on my system all day, even after multiple 
restarts. How do I manually remove it from my computer? This is tantamount to 
malware.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by DanielCo...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2012 at 12:28

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Created 9 years ago
Comments: 16 (15 by maintainers)

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Ping -- let us know if this worked (or didn't work) for you :)

Original comment by ryanmyers@google.com on 25 Sep 2012 at 7:45

GoogleCodeExporter on Jun 30, 2015

Okay.  I'm not sure why there's a Chrome key there -- I'll check with the Earth 
guys to make sure they're not accidentally adding that during their 
install/uninstall.

In the meantime, delete the {8A69 key from Google\Update\Clients, so that only 
the {430F key is present.  This will tell Google Update that it's the only 
product left on the system, and it will uninstall itself at the next background 
update check.  

Background update checks take place every five hours.  If you don't want to 
wait, you can do the following to make it instant: 

1) In the Registry, delete the LastChecked value from Google\Update.
2) Navigate to Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Scheduled Tasks, find the 
GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA job, and run it.

Original comment by ryanmyers@google.com on 25 Sep 2012 at 1:05

GoogleCodeExporter on Jun 30, 2015

No, never. I only use Firefox.

Original comment by DanielCo...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2012 at 12:45

GoogleCodeExporter on Jun 30, 2015

That is the key for Chrome.  Did you ever have Chrome installed at one point?

Original comment by ryanmyers@google.com on 24 Sep 2012 at 11:53

GoogleCodeExporter on Jun 30, 2015

Aside from the one you stated, there is another called 
{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}

Original comment by DanielCo...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2012 at 11:41

GoogleCodeExporter on Jun 30, 2015

Please run regedit and navigate to the following key:

On 32-bit Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Google\Update\Clients
On 64-bit Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Google\Update\Clients

You should see a set of subkeys under Clients\, each named with a GUID.  How 
many of these do you see, and what are their names?  (Ideally, you should only 
see one, starting with "{430FD4D0".)

Original comment by ryanmyers@google.com on 24 Sep 2012 at 7:30

Changed state: Accepted

GoogleCodeExporter on Jun 30, 2015