Strange SCSI adapter installed - seems to be useless

[Abuilder]

It seems to me that Chewy has cussed about Daemon Tools a few times.

[blutach]

Maybe that's just the way it works. I like the autoload, cos I use the virtual drives.

Anyway, it's not a problem! Just a confusion

Happy Days!

Regards

[Chewy]

smelling rootkit here.

It's Daemon Tools!!!!!

exactly

[Abuilder]

Chewy
Please elaborate on that. I never used Daemon tools till tonight. Now you have me concerned.

[blutach]

It's not a rootkit (although SPTD hides itself) - it's just Chewy thinks DT is despicable!!!

But, as I said before, it sure as hell could ID itself a lot better - including the driver.

Regards

[Abuilder]

I just tried to uninstall demon tools and I ended up having to deleting a bunch of *.inf files and killing a half dozen services just to get rid of that virtual (SCSI cd-rom). And I'm not sure I'm totally rid of all of it yet
Demon Tools

[blutach]

Gee, that's not nice of it. When you have the method down, perhaps you can document it here for us all?

Regards

[MilesAhead]

I just tried to uninstall demon tools and I ended up having to deleting a bunch of *.inf files and killing a half dozen services just to get rid of that virtual (SCSI cd-rom). And I'm not sure I'm totally rid of all of it yet
Demon Tools

The version I have installed is 4.09HE
It works with Vista but I noticed any versions I tried
after that left a sour taste. I'm stickin' with 4.09 at least
until I get a new PC and/or OS.

[blutach]

I'm on 4.30.3 (Lite). I don't think 4.30.2 had this. Could be wrong, though.

Regards

[Abuilder]

Les
430.3lite is the one I installed and can’t get rid of. I thought I got rid of it last night but when I booted up this morning the Demon is back! SOB!!
The bad part is I installed it on my primary Win2K partition and now wish I installed it on my secondary par (dual boot)that has XP on it and don't connect to the net with at all and could give a damn if I blast it.... again
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Miles
Is it, “your sticking with it” or “your stuck with It!”? LOL

[Abuilder]

Gee, that's not nice of it. When you have the method down, perhaps you can document it here for us all?

Regards

SOLVED:
The uninstall does not work! but if you run the main setup (daemon4303-lite.exe) in this case, it will ask if you want to UNinstall deamon tools and if you click OK it takes it out. after a reboot.
So much for demon tools!

[Chewy]

When you read up on rootkits, you find they are just drivers loading early in the boot process that "fool" windows, exactly what DT does. There can also be another layer hidden in device manager, that's where the latest malware rooties hid.

I remember one thread where Lightning had to lead an advanced user thru reinstalling SPTI, DT was one of the leading suspects.

[Abuilder]

When you read up on rootkits, you find they are just drivers loading early in the boot process that "fool" windows, exactly what DT does. There can also be another layer hidden in device manager, that's where the latest malware rooties hid.

I hear that! If DemonT loaded at any lower of a level the Bios would probably pick it up as a boot sector virus.

[PurpleDemon]

Okay Guy's. I have had problems with DT as well. It just makes the program mad when you un-install.

Is there an alternative that will give the same result without the headaches?

Glad you figured it out Blutach.

[MilesAhead]

Les
430.3lite is the one I installed and can’t get rid of. I thought I got rid of it last night but when I booted up this morning the Demon is back! SOB!!
The bad part is I installed it on my primary Win2K partition and now wish I installed it on my secondary par (dual boot)that has XP on it and don't connect to the net with at all and could give a damn if I blast it.... again
.
Miles
Is it, “your sticking with it” or “your stuck with It!”? LOL

Nope. It's the version before the code got rude.