What is Iomega Active Disk adusermon.exe and adservice.exe ?
Othello
I am sure I am the last person on earth to install Iomega's Zip100
drivers " ioware-w32-x86-311.exe " Ran into a few problems.
Despite the fact they did not work at first and Iomega support did not
know why, I eventually fixed the problem myself by using old drivers
with the new Iomega Ware software. Once everything was running again
I discovered a couple of extra programs running in the background.
One called ADUSERMON.EXE and ADSERVICE.EXE allegedly part of the
Active Disk Technology that automatically installed itself with the
latest software.
Does anyone know what these modules do? I wouldn't worry much except
that I HATE spyware and the web site
www.spywareinfo.com/startup_full.htm mysteriously does not have the
page and information I need.
Othello
'shell seeker
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm
which explained that those two files were required for
running an executable directly from your zip disk, and
to support the zip equivalent of "auto notification of
insert"
A search for "adusermon" on google groups, showed results
indicating that it is either (a virus) or (spyware from
kazaa) I don't know. I've never used the ioware.
Maybe kazaa just coincidentally named the spyware with
the same file names as ioware, in order to trick people
better.
If you disable those two files and then lose your ability
to run exe's from your zip drive, that would be evidence
that "adusermon" is legitimate.
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Othello
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>I am sure I am the last person on earth to install Iomega's Zip100
>drivers " ioware-w32-x86-311.exe " Ran into a few problems.
>Despite the fact they did not work at first and Iomega support did not
>know why, I eventually fixed the problem myself by using old drivers
>with the new Iomega Ware software. Once everything was running again
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Thought I should post an update. The old drivers with the new ioware
download did not work as well as I thought. A few nights in the
secret lab revealed that my computer would crash anytime I tried to
unlock a locked Zip disk.
Oh well, Windows 98 can handle Windows 95 programs so I went back to
the Windows 95 version of Ioware/drivers and everything is back to
normal.
Moral of the story: Don't upgrade to a new driver if the old one
works just fine.
Othello