Jbob wrote:

> I noticed this issue several weeks ago and rather post what I saw here I
> decided to post it to the SUPERAntiSpyware forums. I posted this on Dec
> 27th and never got a reply.
> See some of what I figured out below.
>
>
> Here is the link to my post there:
> http://forums.superantispyware.com/viewtopic.php?t=346
>
>
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> Hi Nick and others,
>
> I made a search through the forums to see if my question has been asked
> before but didn't notice anything so..........
>
> I've not really tried SAS on my home systems here as in reality I don't
> really need it because of other protection mechanisms I use however I
> routinely recommend it to others.
>
> I decided to give it a shot on one of my systems here using the latest
> release, 3.4. I wanted to become a little more familiar with it.
>
> What I find is a little curious to me and would like some clarification.
> Once SAS has started the only option it appears to shutdown SAS is by
> right clicking the SAS Bug icon in the system tray(of course there's
> Window's Task Manager). It does not shut down when selecting Close from
> the main menu. After some further experimenting I have found that if the
> tray icon is set to display then the above it true however if the tray
> icon is set to NOT display then selecting Close or even the X (close) in
> the upper right corner of the main gui window will close SAS and remove it
> from memory.
>
> Perhaps this should be posted in the suggestion forum but not sure if this
> is by design or not. I have verified this on 2 systems. It would seem to
> me that the SAS tray icon should at least be visible while SAS is running
> regardless of whether the main settings are set to hide it or add another
> setting to allow for this behavior. As an alternative if the tray icon is
> set TO display with SAS running perhaps there should be a dialog box on
> the main gui window to allow for shutdown of SAS over and above the right
> click menu.
>
> I had thought in the few times I had set it up on others systems that by
> selecting Close that SAS was shutting down and freeing up memory. I see
> now that is not the case. The reason I question this is with the Free
> version Real Time protection is not active so why does SAS need to remain
> in memory?
>
> Hopefully I was clear!
>
> Thanks
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