can not remove unknown devices in device manager

Anonymous
2012-08-09T21:05:26+00:00

I suddenly have a bunch of unknown devices showing up in Device Manager - seems to have started around March 28, 2012....the first one, now there are 16 of them. All are under Network Adapters with the same hardware Id of MS_ASWEBRMP. I can disable them in Device Manager but not uninstall them. And on occasion, after reboot, Windows will automatically discover the very same device and attempt to install it...that's why there are 16 of these devices now. Can not remove these from the registry either no matter what I do for setting permissions and or group policies.

I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on a Dell Studio XPS 1645. Interestingly enough on my other Dell Laptops with Windows 7 Home (with same Lan and Wireless adapters) these unknown devices do not show up.

Any help would be appreciated...I'm out of ideas, and Dell support has no idea either. They refer me to Microsoft for Windows 7 support, insisting it has to be an OS issue.

Jay

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-08-18T16:55:36+00:00

    What does it say in the properties of the device under details? Go to device manger- network adapters-unknown device- properties- details. I would like to know what is says under the heading "value".

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-08-18T18:52:07+00:00

    What does it say in the properties of the device under details? Go to device manger- network adapters-unknown device- properties- details. I would like to know what is says under the heading "value". 

    It says Hardware Id value ms_aswebrmp

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-08-18T20:03:17+00:00

    Jay, thanks for advising that reinstalling does not silve the problem, I was just about to do that. Will wait and see MS has an answer. It does not seem to have an effect on the laptops performance on my side (until now).

    Regards

    Daniel

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-08-18T20:07:52+00:00

    Hi Jay,

    The only relation that i found to aswebr.sys is to a "ndis im driver"

    http://systemexplorer.net/file-database/file/aswebr-sys

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff556921(v=vs.85).aspx

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff565778(v=vs.85).aspx

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff565773(v=vs.85).aspx

    This is a very unusual and rare problem as i haven't found a lot of information on it.

    I don't think that this could be any form of malware, but the signs are definitely

    pointing in Microsofts direction in terms of where this problem came from.

    Daniel.O

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-08-18T20:24:40+00:00

    Mind you i could be wrong, it could be malware as there have also been instances where there are bsod's and aswebr.sys

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