Anti-Spyware Background Processes..

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Han" <nobody@nospam.not>

> "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.
>

And you are running a 64bit OS Han ?



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Dave
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[Han]

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in
news:j6t2u002ofk@news4.newsguy.com:

> From: "Han" <nobody@nospam.not>
>
>> "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.
>>
>
> And you are running a 64bit OS Han ?

I believe so, David. Got a new laptop, ASUS X53E, Intel core i3-2310M @
2.1 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 64 bit Win7 Pro.


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Han
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