Weird looking devices

[trodas]

I do have some weird looking non P&P devices in my Device Manager.

Anyone got a clue what the hell they are?

I also have there other suspicious drivers that does not support P&P, and their names are:

ATICDSDr

atidgllk

Beep - used, could this be removed for good somehow?

BOPOMAV

c34nb4c5

DirectX DLL register

e259q4c6

Fs_Rec

rvbedit (I killed this one already)

SSDefrag (I killed this one already)

NetGroup Packet Filter Driver

Parallel - used, could this be removed for good somehow?

YQZBNWOGRK (I killed this one already)

Can I remove/uninstall few of them?

[NIM]

ATICDSDr - That should be ATI Control Panel (don't remove it)

ATIDGLLK.SYS is related to ATI Diagnostics Hardware Abstraction Sys (no need to remove it)

Beep - The Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (not sure about this)

I just saw that you've asked this question on various forums

[Siginet]

I think i recently dealt with a virus that used a beep.sys file. Some of those definatly look like viruses.

[trodas]

Of course I rather ask on more places and then come back with more info!

Well, fist at all, to see all these devices, you have to use the registry tweak:

REGEDIT4

;show all the devices in the hardware table
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]
"DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES"=dword:00000001

And then reboot + choose in the menu again show all devices. Then you can see these.

And true, I had a mallware infection when I was running IE. Not anymore, but some stuff can remain there.

ATICDSDr - removed, no ill effects

atidgllk - removed, no ill effects (I do overclock, but I have nVidia card (ATI mobo chipset tough) and mobo I overclock in bios)

Beep - used, could this be removed for good somehow? Is not that the "beep" speaker anyway? We see if it come back

BOPOMAV - removed, no ill effects

c34nb4c5 - removed, no ill effects (probably related to PunkBuster)

e259q4c6 - removed, no ill effects (probably related to PunkBuster)

Fs_Rec - removed, but it keep comming back (should be File System recognizer)

NetGroup Packet Filter Driver - part of WinPcap - installed for Etheral sniffer, removed

Parallel - removed, but it keep comming back (parallel port disabled in bios)

YQZBNWOGRK - removed, no ill effects

[ricktendo]

These are OK... They are put there by programs, they are usually hidden from the devmgr