{"id":4191,"date":"2026-06-08T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4191"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:00:20","slug":"is-it-expected-to-have-both-f-secure-and-withsecure-services-running-for-elements-agent","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/is-it-expected-to-have-both-f-secure-and-withsecure-services-running-for-elements-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it expected to have both F-Secure and WithSecure services running for Elements Agent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>Is it expected to have both F-Secure and WithSecure services running when WithSecure Elements Agent is installed on a Windows computer? Some Elements Agent related services are still running under the &quot;F-Secure&quot; name on the Windows devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, it is expected to have both WithSecure and F-Secure named services running, as these components are common for both F-Secure and WithSecure, hence the name has been kept.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the following Elements Endpoint Protection services are still using F-Secure name:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">F-Secure Ultralight Hoster (fsulhoster)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">F-Secure Ultralight Network Hoster (fsulnethoster)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">F-Secure Ultralight Protected Hoster (fsulprothoster)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following Elements Agent services are using the WithSecure name:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">WithSecure Device Control (fsdevcon)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">WithSecure Hoster (fshoster)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">WithSecure Hoster (Restricted) (fsnethoster)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it expected to have both F-Secure and WithSecure services running? Customer discovered that some services is still running under the &#8220;F-Secure&#8221; name on their servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-4191","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000011812","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 15:00:20","import_hash":"5d0b5706d0dbd3ff3eaa0ceb7f2b7dca3d4a4832","vanilla_article_id":32360,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32360-is-it-expected-to-have-both-f-secure-and-withsecure-services-running-for-elements-agent","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":102,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}