Re: Removing network adapters



These are hidden devices and are part of your OS. No need to remove.
Untick "show hidden devices" under view in device manager and ignore them.

Woody

"cray" <cray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:82711544-FF28-4E37-925D-72EEBD362D31@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My Machine seems to have a virus thats giving me trouble.In my Devise
> Manager
> there are 6 network adapters installed which should not to be there.They
> are;
> Direct Parallel , MS Tun Miniport adapter, and (4) Wan Miniport adapters
> (IP) (L2TP) (PPPOE) (PPTP)
> The problem is when I try to remove them from the devise manage there is a
> message that says they are part of the boot process: and they do not
> remove.
> I cannot even connect to my ISP (using a modem) even when I reinstall the
> modem and make a new network connection.
> I did not install these adapters/ drivers and I dont know how to remove
> them.
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks
> --
> cray


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