Google toolbar autoupdate-Oh the irritation!

Google toolbar, the toolbar from google, like most other Google products has this feature of auto-updating. The irritation when after it updates and show pop-ups like that of Auto-fill when FireFox starts up, especially on my 256MB RAM is disgusting. There isn't still a solution for this. Even if you end the GoogleUpdate.exe from the Windows task manager it will again start on its own in a couple of seconds. And like always Google has a reply for this as well:

Excerpts from markcarey.com-

There are lots of good reasons to auto-update the toolbar. For example, about two years ago, a security company found a potential security issue with the toolbar. The toolbar team went into a non-stop quest to find and fix any security issues. With auto-update, we were able to deploy the fix to toolbar users before anyone but the security company knew about it in the first place. So we want users to be informed that the toolbar auto-updates, but I think that in general it can be a very useful feature to auto-update.

bateman_ap, I think that the toolbar team took care not to enable any extra options (e.g. pop-up blocking) if the toolbar upgrades--let me know if you find otherwise, and I'll pass the feedback on. The upgrade does have a lot of useful features that I think people would like (it took me about 10 minutes to really want the new version instead of the old version), and I'm not aware of any features that went away, so I hope people will explore the new version for a little while before assuming that the upgrade is for the worse somehow.

However enabling the auto-update has its own share of good. It makes your software and ultimately your PC safe from the latest security threats. So what do you think of it?