Disabling Software Reporter Tool

[Dafydd]

Hi,

as an organisation, we practise application whitelisting (on Windows), so that no unauthorised software can run from e.g. user profiles.

Chrome is installed into Program Files.

For the last few months, I have been notified of an executable called software_reporter_tool.exe attempting to run by Chrome from AppData on our user workstations.

I can find no documented way to disable this tool from running, or indeed, what the tool really does.

In a managed environment, where the users cannot install any software, I have no need for a reporter/cleanup tool.

I hope there is an easy way to disable this tool, to prevent me being notified of unauthorised software being run several times a day for each user.

Cheers,

Dafydd

[MSI Team]

The software_reporter_tool is [part of] the Chrome Cleanup Tool (formerly the Software Removal Tool). Please see https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/bFhfVkR-ENo. Thanks.

[Max Burg]

Hi,

did you find a way to disable the "software reporter tool"?

We have a similar problem. We use AppSense application manager which is configured to block every app owned/created by a user and not an admin.

Would be great if you got a solution.

Cheers, Max

[Rhied White]

I went into notepad and created a file in the same directory and called it software_reporter_tool.txt.  Then I closed Chrome, renamed the original exe file to .old and renamed the .txt file to .exe and the process no longer runs when I start up Chrome.  I'll mention that I added enough text in the file to make the file a little larger than the original exe, but I'm not sure if it really matters.  

[Juan José López Jaimez]

Hello,

The Software Reporter Tool is used by chrome to identify potential unwanted software installed on the user's browser.

I am not aware if there is a way of disabling it, however I think this issue has been reported to the team in charge of the tool and they may be working on it.


Cheers

JJ

[Bill Mayhew]

3 YEARS LATER and this damned thing is still annoying Google customers.

Google product quality has gone into the sewer.  I was a fan of Chrome for a while, but there've been too many anomalous behaviors and too much abject refusal by Google to address them.  Now I use Firefox Quantum - Mozilla has a long track record of RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE behavior.