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

> 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.
>

You have to realize that for some actions or capabilities a NT Service will have to be
loaded and run as the System.



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Dave
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