Disable Google Software Reporter Tool
Software Reporter tool which gets installed with Chrome (and also available as standalone with name Chrome Cleanup tool) doesn’t have any network communication, runs a scan once a week for unwanted software and shares the scan results with Chrome which may allow browser to ask the user to run Chrome Cleanup tool (which has been recently got ESET Scan engine to detect more unwanted software on your computer) when adware was detected.
- Disable Google Software Reporter Tool Gpo
- Remove Google Software Reporter Tool
- Disable Google Chrome Software Reporter Tool Windows 7
Disable Google Software Reporter Tool Gpo
READ: Google adds ESET Scan engine to Chrome Cleanup to remove more unwanted software on Windows
- Jan 20, 2018 Software Reporter Tool, the executable file is softwarereportertool.exe, is a tool that Google distributes with the Google Chrome web browser. It is part of the Chrome Cleanup Tool which in turn may remove software that causes issues with Chrome. Google mentions crashes, modified startup or new tab pages, or unexpected advertisement specifically.
- Sep 30, 2017 Google Chrome's 'softwarereportertool' is not 'anti-maleware' akin to Norton. Chrome telemetry wants to monitor your Chrome install and report.
- Apr 23, 2019 If you’ve privacy concerns about this tool or if SoftwareReporter tool is using more CPU when running, you can disable it by removing the permissions already it has to do the scan, reporting and other stuff, here is how that can be done. Block or disable Google Chrome’s Software Reporter Tool.
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If you’ve privacy concerns about this tool or if Software_Reporter_ tool is using more CPU when running, you can disable it by removing the permissions already it has to do the scan, reporting and other stuff, here is how that can be done.
Google Chrome Software Reporter monitors Google Chrome add-ons and other software that might interfere with it. Some users have reported that the Google Chrome Software Reporter Tool is hogging memory and wish to disable it. Sep 10, 2015 Anyone know what 'Software reporter tool' is? It says in Google groups that the 'Software reporter tool' will conflict with Norton internet security, which I'm running. It also says that you can remove it in 'Windows add remove' settings, but I can't see it there!!!
Block or disable Google Chrome’s Software Reporter Tool
1. Paste the below path in Windows Explorer or Run dialog and press enter
Download alexa app for windows 10 pc free. %localappdata%GoogleChromeUser DataSwReporter
2. Click on the version number, right click on Software_reporter_tool, and select Properties
3. Click on Security tab and click on Advanced,
4. Click ‘Disable Inheritance’,
5. Select ‘Remove all inherited permissions from this object’
6. Click on Apply and OK to save the changes.
Doing so doesn’t cause any issues to the functioning of Chrome.
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To restore default functioning of SRT, follow the steps from 1 to 3 and click ‘Enable Inheritance’.
Now, know What Programs does Chrome Cleanup tool can remove?
Since deleting or renaming Software reporter tool folder doesn’t help, as with next Chrome update it gets added automatically, do you’ve still any issues or concerns with SRT after disabling it? Let us know in the comments.
After using Google Chrome for like about 10 minutes today, Symantec AV displayed a pop-up in the notification area with the text 'software_reporter_tool.exe is safe'.
I was not consciously downloading anything from the internet at the time and decided to take a look at the details of the notification. It turns out that Google Chrome had downloaded an 854Kb executable named 'software_reporter_tool.exe':
I was not able to find much of any information on what this tool does.
Does it check what software I have installed and report that to Google?
Or something else?
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Taken from this forum:
Oh, I see - that is the .exe process for the software removal tool. This is a safe file.
You can simply remove the SRT app from your computer if you'd no longer like to use it. However, it is the most affective way so far to combat malicious redirection Malware in Chrome.
- Norton, as with any other anti virus, will conflict with SRT. You should only have one anti virus program running at a time.
- This depends on the application and greatly varies. For instance; Hangouts needs access to your mic and online status.
- You can uninstall SRT with Windows add/remove programs.
Remove Google Software Reporter Tool
The link provided in @Anon 's answer is useful but doesn't really say much about why a web browser scans the user's hard drive in folders that have nothing to do with Chrome, and taking up CPU and battery resources in the process.
They provide a bit more detailed sentence here:
It runs in the background checking for the malicious software and alerting you to run the clean up tool to remove it
Still it doesn't give out much information about how and why that program is there or how to avoid having it scanning your hard drive. So I wouldn't consider it safe, only because it comes from the vendor.
Uninstalling or deleting or renaming the file will not work because it will simply come back when Chrome is updated. But it can easily be disabled as shown in the following link..