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Hardware => Drivers => Topic started by: ringbinder on March 15, 2015, 12:50:01 AM

Title: Non-Plug and Play Drivers
Post by: ringbinder on March 15, 2015, 12:50:01 AM

Running Windows XP SP3 on Intel core i3 3.1 GHz  3GB RAM
On every start and occasionally through the day i see the message:
"The software you are installing for this hardware:
Non-Plug and Play Drivers
Has not passed Windows Logo testing etc etc......."

The options are continue or stop installation.  I choose Stop installation

I am not trying to install any new hardware, not trying to install software.  Why am I getting this message ?

I think I may have chosen the "continue" option once sometime ago and was then plagued with 45 or more Trojans every day which I managed to clear eventually with daily scans with MalwareBytes, CCleaner and SuperAntiSpyware.

Why does my system think I am trying to install hardware ?

Thanks for any help you can give.   

Title: Re: Non-Plug and Play Drivers
Post by: patio on March 15, 2015, 06:50:41 AM

There may or may not be a clue to what it is in Event Viewer...

Title: Re: Non-Plug and Play Drivers
Post by: xfiles63 on March 16, 2015, 05:09:10 PM

Maybe upgrading your operating system will help,Windows xp is very old with no support

Title: Re: Non-Plug and Play Drivers
Post by: Allan on March 17, 2015, 06:09:21 AM

Feel free to ignore the above post.

Title: Re: Non-Plug and Play Drivers
Post by: ringbinder on March 22, 2015, 02:16:38 AM

Thanks Allan, I certainly do.

Title: Re: Non-Plug and Play Drivers
Post by: ringbinder on March 22, 2015, 02:23:32 AM

Found it !   AVG Antivirus Free needing to install a driver for something, the driver unsigned !  Deleted AVG Free, cleaned the registry, tried to reinstall AVG Free and it would not install untill I allowed that driver to be installed as well.  Allowed it to install, AVG Free completed the install and there has been no recurrence.
As a side note though, AVG Free still occasionally finds Trojans which Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware do not find.  Is is possible that AVG is finding false positives ?  Anyone come across this before ?