Is this safe??

[zonecrew]

whenever i connect to the net my zonealarm firewall warns me that a search assistant called sais.exe is trying to connect to the net.

i think this is part of my broadband access?? as it attempts to connect to the BT website (i use bt broadband)

should i allow access or is it spyware??

[Blackspear]

More information here http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/sais/

Hope this helps...

Cheers ;D

[snapdragin]

Hi zonecrew, and welcome to Wilders. :)

As Blackspear's link will show you, sais.exe is not part of your ISP but is part of the 180 Search Assistant adware/spyware, so you have done right in blocking it's access to the internet.

You can try uninstalling 180 Search Assistant through "Add/Remove Programs" first. There is more information for manual cleaning here: Kephyr - 180 Search Assistant (http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/180searchassistant/index.phtml)

If you do not have the following, then download, install and bring up to-date one of the following two anti-spyware programs (using both is also recommended and they work well together) and do a full system scan them:
Ad-Aware SE Personal (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download506.html)
Spybot Search&Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html)

Let us know how you make out.

Regards,

snap

[zonecrew]

thanks for the advice


;)