Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:57:49 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
>On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 11:07 -0700, John R. Sowden wrote:
>> I cannot tell.  I went to Syn Pkg Mrg and searched for "chrom", to 
>> include Chromium, and got a couple dozen packages.  None of them are 
>> installed.  Then I ran the catfish file finder and found 143
>> results.  
>> Some were for "chroma", etc. 45 were from:
>> /lib/modules/3.13.0-79-
>> generic/kernel/drivers/platform/chrome/chromeos_laptop.ko  
>
>It's not clear what you want to do.  What do you mean by "you can't
>keep it off your computer"?

To get rid of as many world conspiracy kernel modules, it would be
possible to compile a kernel after configuring with

  make localmodconfig

"Since the 2.6.32 kernel, a new feature allows you to update the
configuration to only compile modules that are actually used in your
system:

make localmodconfig" - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile