I have a Creative Live! sound card and when I installed it's drivers I also got this devldr32.exe running in my process list. I've searched for the exe and renamed it every time to keep it from coming, but somehow it regenerates itself and is always in the process list. How can I get rid of this for good? I don't want any unnecessary programs running all the time.

Lightforce, could it be put in as a worm and thus keep coming back? Be aware that a virus and a Trojan worm are similar, but not the same. Many times, an AV detects one it can't clean , other times, it gets missed entirely. If you need to clean one, A² can do the job and you can get it free @: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4... among other places. If it turns out that you need to use it, be sure to update prior to running. They just released a new update recently and it changes all the time. Things are in a constant state of flux. HTH. Ed in Texas.

From: http://dmzweb4.europe.creative.com/... Quote Devldr32.exe/Devldr16.exe: In SBLive legacy driver, Devldr32.exe (NT platform) and Devldr16.exe(win9x platform) is used to load/unload devcon32.dll to support EAX/Soundfont. It will set the default midi device as well. End of quote Bryan

"devldr32.exe is installed with Creative Labs audio hardware. Installed to start automatically by default, this process is crucial to Creative Labs AudioHQ, Creative Mixer and audio input. This program is a non-essential system process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems." not so unnecessary as you think, huh? :-) google could have told you that, btw. Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.' icq 10183575

I know it's supposed to have some use, but the reappearing of the program made me suspicious. How can it regenerate itself at every boot? I used A2 and it found only a couple of tracing cookies or something. When it was doing it's scan, AVG found two trojans which had caused me trouble earlier.

Please express what the issue is. Are you looking for a tool that reveals items such as shown above or are you trying to determine if you should have it at startup or not. If the later...you should have it; and is likely controlled within the registry to add it if it is missing. Is it causing a problem? You could get a different sound card if you do not like the behavior of your current one. Bryan