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Computer Question
Maybe one of you folks can help me out a little here.
I fired up my laptop this morning to do updates and all, since I'm going to take it with me this weekend. Went to Windows Defender and got a pop up saying it was turned off. Tried to run as administrator and got the "unidentified program wants to access your computer" message.
The program requesting access is MSASCui*****. Being that it is an ***** file, I'm leery of allowing it access because I'm ignorant of what it really is.
Does anyone here know?
I fired up my laptop this morning to do updates and all, since I'm going to take it with me this weekend. Went to Windows Defender and got a pop up saying it was turned off. Tried to run as administrator and got the "unidentified program wants to access your computer" message.
The program requesting access is MSASCui*****. Being that it is an ***** file, I'm leery of allowing it access because I'm ignorant of what it really is.
Does anyone here know?
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I'm not sure what is going on with your system, but that file appears to be a required system file.
Windows Defender - MSASCui***** - Program Information
What is msascui*****? - msascui explanation.
msascui***** - What is msascui*****?
Windows Defender - MSASCui***** - Program Information
What is msascui*****? - msascui explanation.
msascui***** - What is msascui*****?
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Thanks Bill. I had no idea, but I seem to remember that malicious stuff can find it's way on to your system through .e x e files, and I didn't want to click in haste and repent in leisure.
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Just remember that, just because a file name is good, does not mean the file has not been tampered with. It's just one clue.
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Thats why I have purchased Macs. No virus issue's. According to a report they have found people reporting infected Macs. Trojan I believe is what they called it. So much for Mac's being safe..
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macs have more holes in there system then vista does, but you dont see as many issues with macs just because the number of them out there is a much small number, and mac spends a bunch of money to keep the storys hidden. a while back there was this guy who found a security issues with them and tried to tell apple about it but apple said no there is no issues and effectively ruined the guys programing carrer so then a group of programers who liked the guy spent a bunch of time finding holes in the mac system and they found a ton of them.
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That's why I like running pc's with unix/linux.
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