"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in
news:j6t1a902nmc@news4.newsguy.com:

> 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.

I have SAS paid, and have SASCore64.exe running from system, I believe.

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Han
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