JD wrote...

>
> 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.


It's an update checker. It will turn off, but if you run SAS or update the
program it returns to an autorun setting. SAS may be anti-malware, but setting
up as an autorun program of it's own, that I cannot control makes it no better
than a virus, trojan or malware. Most other programs have an auto-update
option, it's time SAS did the same.



> 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.