From: "JD" <JD@example.invalid>

> Doing some research about a question in another newsgroup, I fired up Process Explorer,
> from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals and I found a couple of new
> process running the the background:
>
> SASCORE.exe: The Description is "core service." I run SUPERAntiSpyware Free as an
> on-demand scanner and manually update it so I'm curious as to why this process starts
> with Windows? The SAS response is: "You need it for the free edition - leave it set as
> we set it. The core service should be left running - that's the bottom line - it uses
> little memory or cpu." Anybody here familiar with this service? I can easily set it to
> manual or disabled using Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services.
>
> a2Service.exe: The Description is Emsisoft Anti-Malware Service. I run Emsisoft
> Anti-Malware as an on-demand scanner and manually update it so I'm also curious as to
> why this process starts with Windows? I haven't found a real description of what it
> does. Anybody here familiar with this service? I can easily set it to manual or disabled
> using Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services.
>
> I'm not a big fan of services that run in the background for no real reason.
>

The "a2Service.exe" Emsisoft Anti-Malware Service is for removing malware under a Limited
User Account (LUA).

I don't know know what SASCORE.exe is or what it is used for.


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Dave
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