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Any of you that uses a program that monitors CPU usage or tracks any programs that are calling home without your exclusive permission like Little Snitch will find KSfetch will continually pop up whether you block it or give it permission 'always' leading to a constant need to either block or give permission several times per hour. This is because this process keeps reinventing itself somehow so that the allow or block always command is not effective. I have tried using terminal to kill this process without success. I did find one article deeply buried in the internet that provided a simple method that worked at the time. The key was to locate the offending Google update folder or the Ksfetch file in the 'username'/library/preference folder. (not the exact path) select get info for the parent folder and change the permissions to -no read or write. This silenced the app from being able to launch. I did this successfully on my 2009 MacBook Pro. I have a new 2016 MacBP and have yet to make this change to see if it works again. I'm hoping it does and I hope it works for you.