A-Squared free/sytem config. ?

High all very nice site here,anyway i have AS ticked to run in my system configuration utility is that what i need should it be running? i didn't think this was a real time scanner??

hope this is the right spot for this....

 

I don't know exactly what you are asking....

The free version has a service that runs, but it is only an on-demand scanner.
The real-time program is A-Squared Antimalware, the paid version.

 

here..

 

Yes.
That has been brought up in the forum before.(Try the forum search for details)
The service needs to run in order to update or scan.

 

k thanks...

 

No problem.

 

Which seems like a very lame way to go to me - that's the reason I uninstalled it pretty quick. As I've noticed others take the same approach, that's one thing I checked for in no time. Those that do this go off my PC and are never used in the future anywhere by me. In SAS free I can simply uncheck all the options to the left of the first option window and I'm ready to go for example.

 

What is the problem tho??, i just asking.

 

How do you mean? If you mean my kinda "personal" problem with the software, it's that I don't want a useless service wasting my resources for nothing. That's just one reason I remove things like Java from my system if it gets bundled - it takes a shitload of CPU time. Then couple that with all the security holes that have to be patched with new versions like every week, which it doesn't notify about everytime, even if its automatic update runs on every startup (!), and installing an update WILL NOT remove the older version containing the flaw!

 

I see,thanks for the info.

 

Whoa your on a rampage man but right on the money

 

Yeah, maybe even a little OT. Sorry, it led to that.

 

I agree about useless services, but I've found the a-squared service to use barely any resources.

The service will only be using about 1MB of ram, maybe 2MB tops, nothing to worry about. The developers have previously said this service is needed to allow the program to launch in the event of malware (trying to prevent a-squared from running).

Opening windows task manager (Vista) uses 10MB of ram. The sidebar, uses a minimum of 20MB.

If you don't want any services running, uninstall the free product and use its web scanner service.

 

I usually don't give a crap about the RAM if it isn't ridiculously much - what I care about is the CPU (time) it's taking.

 

All cool Raven. I'd have to reinstall the AM program to see CPU.

In my experience, it's definitely not as intensive as say McAfee.

 

LOL, and I really hope not as it's only a useless service.

 

Never considered to set A-Squared Service in Manual ? It will begin when you'll run the on demand scan, then all you have to do is to stop the service.

 

That's an option, but I don't have it as one of my first choices, so it won't make it in my book anyway. Having a useless service does bring it down a lot, even if the solution is simple. Pointless things should be punished.

 

I hate Java and its 10 different versions!!! What a waste.

 

But why do you keep all of them, once you know that they are all lying there? You only need the very last version to be present. It's simple anough to cleanly uninstall and reinstall anew when doing the update. I am not saying that Sun should not improve its installer to automaticly clean the old mess, but in the mean time JavaRa can also be used to start afresh. There is no real available alternative but to install their bullish Java and keep it up to date.

 

why not uninstall the older versions? that what i do.
java 6 update 10 upwards now installs in one folder.
if you install java 6 update 11 it will replace update 10. update 12 will replace 11 etc.

 

That's better, but last time I ran OpenOffice, it incl. an old version of Java, update 7 or something.