Tarq57 Posted June 15, 2007 Hi, I have a number of demand scanners installed, (including SAS of course) and in the past week or 2 updates to AVG AS (7.5.143) Asquared (3.0.0.318) and the new release AdAware2007 have installed services that run at windows start, whether the program is active or not. AdAware's, particularly, uses a large amount. The others quite small, but I've read quite a bit of user backlash concerning the need for a demand scanner to have this. The explanations include: "required for Vista" (AVG) "Enable running under a non-admin account" (Asquared) and " " (AdAware). Since the scanners concerned are provided as a courtesy(or publicity exercise) free to users, this doesn't bother me (except for AdAware's, at ~22Mb). So my question is: Are there any plans for SAS to include a similar service? And if so, will an explanation be offered to users prior? (I think that would be a good idea.) And if so, how much RAM is it likely to use. Sri, I know that's 3 questions. Thanks for providing an excellent scanner/support Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUPERAntiSpy Posted June 15, 2007 Hi, I have a number of demand scanners installed, (including SAS of course) and in the past week or 2 updates to AVG AS (7.5.143) Asquared (3.0.0.318) and the new release AdAware2007 have installed services that run at windows start, whether the program is active or not.AdAware's, particularly, uses a large amount. The others quite small, but I've read quite a bit of user backlash concerning the need for a demand scanner to have this. The explanations include: "required for Vista" (AVG) "Enable running under a non-admin account" (Asquared) and " " (AdAware). Since the scanners concerned are provided as a courtesy(or publicity exercise) free to users, this doesn't bother me (except for AdAware's, at ~22Mb). So my question is: Are there any plans for SAS to include a similar service? And if so, will an explanation be offered to users prior? (I think that would be a good idea.) And if so, how much RAM is it likely to use. Sri, I know that's 3 questions. Thanks for providing an excellent scanner/support Currently we don't require a service to have full access to the system. For Vista we may do a service for our updater and first chance prevention to follow the proper guidelines in Vista. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tarq57 Posted June 15, 2007 Thanks for the answer...does this mean that such a service would be provided in a vista-only version, or the version available will be modified so it runs on vista? (And thereby also runs the service on XP) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUPERAntiSpy Posted June 15, 2007 Thanks for the answer...does this mean that such a service would be provided in a vista-only version, or the version available will be modified so it runs on vista? (And thereby also runs the service on XP) It depends on what we do - a service that is inactive has no impact on the system. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tarq57 Posted June 15, 2007 Yeah, that would be a popular way to go, if it stops itself when the program is closed. Thankyou, Nick. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
