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DriversThis tab displays drivers installed on your system. The list includes only drivers with a non-empty binary file name. The kernel drivers are sometimes used by various keylogger/spyware software to record system events. Warning: if, during a software installation, the alert dialog appears and notes that a new driver is added, THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE DRIVER IS A SPYWARE DRIVER and not a legitimate hardware driver. Some software may require a certain hardware driver that is not installed yet, so the driver is installed during the software installation. Please be very careful with drivers. Do not change anything unless you're 100% sure what you're doing. What's A Driver?A device driver is a component that Windows uses to provide I/O services for and interact with an underlying device, such as a modem or network adapter. Rather than access the device directly, Windows loads device drivers and calls functions in the drivers to carry out actions on the device. The driver functions contain the device-specific code needed to carry out actions on the device. Device drivers for Windows 2000/XP (NT drivers) are usually library files with .sys filename extensions. Drivers can also be used to work as a filter between a program and a hardware device. This allows spyware/keylogger programs to record user activity and even change the contents of the data received by a program (e.g. web pages received by Internet Explorer). Note that an NT driver is a subtype of a service also called "driver service". The Edit ActionThe edit action allows you to set the startup type of the driver, stop or start it. Please note that you should use this action only in emergency cases when there's no other way to stop or delete the driver. Sometimes stopping or deleting the driver can lead to a blue screen error appearing and require a system reboot. Please, first try all normal methods to un-install the driver before applying the edit action. The Delete ActionThe delete action (depending on the selected options):
You may need to reboot Windows for the action to take effect. Properties
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