Can anybody please tell me why winword.exe wants to install a driver? At present I deny and everything seems to work fine just as well?
Just a guess, but are you using any speech input or anything else like that? That could require a driver.
No, however the printer is accessed via a network. Still, even with denying the request, sofar I have not seen any negative outcome
Don't worry to allow it since Winword.exe is a trusted file. Generally speaking, you can allow all TRUSTED applications what they need (install drivers, services etc.) but anyway and I recommend you to go through all applications in protection tab and check if there are not any suspicious ones. Of great help can serve you PG database on PG home page. BTW, in my case winword.exe needs to have allowed installation of a driver when creating a PDF file using a virtual PDF printer driver. Regards, Engine
I don't know - where does PG tell me that. Under alerts it just states that winword.exe tried to install a driver / service - Process ID 3328 thanks engine, I had not yet seen this. While winword is not listed there, some other files I have seen popping up (copernic) are there
WINWORD.EXE IS A VIRUS CALLED TROJAN DRIVUS ACCORDING TO SYMANTEC AND SOPHOS ALSO SAYS IT IS THOUGH A DIFFERENT NAME.
Regdefend will tell you the name of the driver if ProcessGuard isn't doing it and you want the information to do some more research before you allow it The 2 programs complement each other quite nicely
If you have any of the microsoft office then winword.exe is probably Word. Note when you start Microsoft Outlook, winword.exe also starts. This is normal. If you don't have any of the Office programs or Microsoft Word installed then I would check out winword.exe very closely.
