"FredW" <fredw@blackholespam.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:33:57 -0400, "FromTheRafters"
> <erratic.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
>>"FredW" <fredw@blackholespam.net> wrote in message
>>news:8iv8979km24vc3pmgcm8192c5jni8d3ge6@4ax.com. ..
>>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:10:37 -0400, "FromTheRafters"
>>> <erratic.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Let's play "what if ... ?"
>>>
>>> I did: "what if I close the service for which I can find no reason."
>>>
>>>>If you don't trust them, why are you running their program?
>>>
>>> Why would I run SAS twice per week when I would not trust SAS?
>>>
>>>
>>> I am just curious as what will happen when I stop a service with no
>>> visible purpose.
>>
>>Purposes aren't always visible. In my above hypothetical scenario, there
>>would be no output event except failure when the hypothetical malware
>>was encountered.
>>
>>Of course you can do as you like.
>
> Thank you for your (hypothetical) scenarios.
> I have read (and reread) them carefully.
>
> I have now 69 services running (and more not running).
> There are many services running for which I never bothered to look for
> their purpose.
> I now also found a service for a program I run only once per week.
>
> I will leave the SAS Core Service stopped (and manual) for now.
> When the next version of SAS appears (end of this month), I will
> uninstall and install as I usually do with new versions of programs.
> When SAS Core Service will be installed as "automatic", I will leave it
> as it will be installed.

It would be nice to hear from the vendor exactly why they feel it is best
to have it enabled. I'm sure you are not the only user with concerns
about what is running and why, perhaps if you voiced your concerns to
the vendor they may give you more insight. I'm sure many users want
their on demand security tools to not have active components wasting
cycles - after all, that is usually why they opt for on demand.