No. It shuts down properly when I exit from the tray. But if I remove gcasServ.exe from the startup entry, it returns when I open MS Antispyware again. And something about the tray icon isn't working right. If I remove the icon from the programs settings, it returns as well. Oh, well it's a beta.
BTW, here is some official MS links.


Microsoft Antispyware News Group

Known issues with Windows AntiSpyware

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>Hmmm .. do you mean, if you rightclick and exit the Microsoft
>A.S entry in the tray, that is leaves a process running? It
>loads these two processes at startup {assuming set at startup
>defaults}:
>
>1. gcasServ.exe -- MS AntiSpyware Service
>2. gcasDtServ.ex -- MS AntiSpyware Data Service
>
>Are you saying it leaves one of those running? I suppose if
>it did you could "kill" the service using Task Manager if you
>wished. ;)

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