Add option not to load on startup

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Walter Williams

You can turn off some features, but I simply don't want
it to load itself on startup since I keep good track of
that stuff, and I use such software occasionally to be my
2nd eyes. To me it's just another useless process, and I
have to use regedit to stop it.
 
Are you referring to gcasserv.exe?
You can simply prevent that one from starting by going into the Startup tab
of the System Configuration Utility (msconfig).

But you weren't talking about that one, were you??? :-))

george
 
If you don't want realtime protection, then just use Lavasoft AdAware, which
is free too.

Seems odd to not want realtime protection for Spyware, I would rather
prevent it, than to just clean it up once a week or something.
 
Recommending alternatives with continuing to use the beta product is not
helping the feedback process.
 
What does your comment mean? How is asking that disabling MS realtime
protection by turning off it's ability to run at start up, how does that
help beta testing either? And how does my comment to use a non-realtime
application for non-realtime scanning a problem either way?

I have been giving good beta feedback about VNC issues, etc. With details,
etc. How to reproduce it, etc. I just don't see why someone would want to
use MS AS 1.0 Beta for non-realtime scanning. If they don't need realtime
protection, then kinda pointless to be beta testing MS AS 1.0 Beta at this
time since it's main point is realtime protection and scheduled scans.

Sorry that I don't understand your comment about how my previous comment was
unhelpful. Please be more detailed, especially when you are accusing me of
not being helpful. Thanks.
 
I agree--you've been helpful!

The "right" way to turn off the real-time protection isn't obvious,
unfortunately. The checkboxes don't really do the job. See the workaround
paragraph in this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892375 End users may be prompted to allow or
block administrative actions that originate from a central management tool
after they install Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) on a computer that is managed
by Systems Management Server 2003

This is harder than it ought to be--I don't know if they can improve it.
 
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