Han wrote:
> "David H. Lipman"<DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in
> news:j6t6fd02q69@news4.newsguy.com:
>
>> From: "FredW"<fredw@blackholespam.net>
>>
>>> On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 17:15:39 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
>>> <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
>>>> From: "Han"<nobody@nospam.not>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have SAS paid, and have SASCore64.exe running from system, I
>>>>> believe.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And you are running a 64bit OS Han ?
>>>
>>> I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and the free version of SAS
>>> installed.
>>> I have the service !SASCORE running - SAS Core Service
>>>
>>> Path to executable:
>>> "C:\Program Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SASCORE64.EXE"
>>>
>>> Startup type: Automatic
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> So we know what the service belongs to and we knows there are 32 bit
>> and 64 bit versiosn. The questiion is what does this SAS NT Service
>> perform ?
>
> Hi David:
> SAS has been updating lately. The file in Windows Taskmanager has under
> Properties a description of Core Service, type application, file version
> 1.0.0.1066, copyright 2005-2011 SUPERAntispyware, 0 bytes, but in
> TaskManager it's listed as 1440K. Opening file location, and it is
> 138KB, dated 8/11/2011 7:38PM.
>
> I tend to trust SAS, but I don't understand how this works, really. Do
> you want me to email you the file?
>

From what I can tell, it's just some crap-ware service that you don't
really need to run to use the SAS program. You can set it to manual or
disable it. Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services, SAS Core Service.

For the time being, I set mine to manual.

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JD..