David H. Lipman wrote:
> 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.
>

I grow weary of having to turn things off that I never turned on in
software that is supposed to protect me from Malware/Spyware. I guess I
opted in when I installed the software and both programs are free
because I didn't pay for them but I wonder what the costs are to my
computer.

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JD..