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

> David H. Lipman wrote:
>> From: "JD"<JD@example.invalid>
>>
>>> David H. Lipman wrote:
>>>> 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 set both services to Manual, using Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services and
>>> both programs seem to work without the services running. I ended up updating Emsisoft
>>> Anti-Mailware from Version 5.1.0.19 to Version 6.0.6.40 and it changed the Service to
>>> version 6, which I also set to Manual.
>>>
>>> It also didn't give me an option on the install location. Not a good thing.
>>>
>>> Do you use Emsisoft Anti-Mailware? It seems like it's turning into what I call
>>> "crap-ware" where it has a whole slew of questionable things I had to disable, "Enable
>>> Guard on system startup" and "Join the Anti-Malware Network." What the Hell?
>>>
>>> So much for a simple, on-demand, manually updated scanners. 8-)
>>>
>>
>>
>> I stopped using Nick Skrepeto's s software years ago.
>>
>
> He's the author of SAS or Emsisoft Anti-M?
>
> Besides your Multi-AV scanning tool, do you have a on-demand, manual update anti-malware
> program that you like?
>

Nick Skrepeto is the author of SAS but it has been sold off. Now Nick can race his car
all he wants.

To the best of my knowledge, Christian Mairoll is the author of Emsisoft.

If I had another manually updated anti-malware program that I liked, I would replace
Kaspersky's DOS based scanner with it in my Mulkti-AV Scanning Tool.

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp