26 Jan 18:59:38 - [DRIVER/SERVICE] g:\windows\system32\services.exe [716] Tried to install a driver/service named AIDA32Driver. My question about this one is this: If Aida32 is still working fine - then didn't it actually go ahead establish whatever "driver/service" it needed to work? I went through all of the information fields, checked to see that Aida32's plug-ins would kick in if I needed them to (they did) - so, "Golden Rule" time here again? Pete
Checked with TDS's "Registered NT Services Explorer" - and Aida32 definitely isn't running as a service. If i go to the "Preferences"/"Stability" section of Aida32, I suppose I could UN-check "Load Device Driver under WinNT/W2k/XP" - but I really don't know what effect that would have on Aida32's performance - and - since it's working fine as is.... Pete
Hi Pete, There are other applications which will "trip" this flag in PG, such as Sysinternals' "Process Explorer", "Regmon", "FileMon", etc. With regard to these, however, the allow flag needed to be set or they would not work, but as they were downloaded from the originating site I and they are too useful to do without I went ahead and allowed each of them Service/Driver rights. In all three of these cases (and presumeably with Aida) there is a driver that starts (or tries to) when the respective application is launched.
If you lose major functionality and you need to use that program, it is always best to Allow what it needs. Process Explorer for example, won't start if you have blocked drivers/services from being installed unless you allow procexp.exe to Create Driver/Services. For some things I don't mind losing small functionality in a program, like the Internet Explorer issue I mentioned before. For other things I trust I allow them to do what they want. -Jason-
What's "confusing" me a bit on threads such as these is basically this: I have a trusted program under protection of PG with the basic blocks in place. PG issues a log print that says this trusted program tried to do a Global Hook (for example). Why would not I as a user just give that trusted program that Option? It's protected from being tampered with by PG, so it shouldn't be able to do harm.
Yes I agree Siliconman, it is more of a precuation thing I think, the more things you stop a program from doing the better really. -Jason-
