Strange OSA 1.4 Development

Discussion in 'other anti-malware software' started by TomAZ, Oct 20, 2018.

  1. TomAZ

    TomAZ Registered Member

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    I've been using OSA 1.4 on my XP system since the final version was first released -- and it has been running extremely well. However, in the last couple of days, I have incurred a new and strange development. Both AppGuard and my firewall (PrivateFirewall) use unusually high amounts of CPU continually monitoring OSA -- and that monitoring seems to go on forever. As soon as I uninstall OSA, the problem goes away. I've uninstalled OSA and reinstalled it again, but the problem comes back. As I recall, I installed OSA 1.4 some time in June -- and I never had the problem until a few days ago. By the way, I haven't made any other system changes either.

    Any idea of what might be going on?
     
  2. EASTER

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    I think you named it yourself as to what's going on.

    In AppGuard can't you "exclude" or place OSA 1.4 in the ignore list?

    As to Private Firewall, it's been years for me since using that one, i'm not sure the same can be done.

    To chop the CPU intensity, somehow seems those 2 apps must stop monitoring OSA.
     
  3. TomAZ

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    Points well taken -- I'll check it out. But what's so puzzling is that this is a new development. I've been using OSA 1.4 for a few months now with no problems at all -- and no other system changes.
     
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    If I took a wild guess, it would be that those other two apps (one or the other) is ramped up monitoring due to some update behind the scenes maybe? Or could be just a glitch. I say that more toward PrivateFirewall then AppGuard but regardless both those should back off your CPU cycles where concerns OSA since it's a safe security program that does it's own bit of monitoring but without taxing energy usage in that sort of manner.

    Best of luck getting to the bottom of it :)
     
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