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So I turned on my PC a few hours ago and found that 2 hours later, said driver was installed according to Device Manager/Action Center/Event Viewer...
Im not sure what could have done this. I've had this board, an Asus Z87-Plus, for almost two years now and this windows install in only 2 weeks old. This is the first time I have ever seen this in Device Manager, and I check things quite frequently.
I have a somewhat vague idea of what it is used for, creating a virtual wireless connection similar to VMs but I'm curious why It would have randomly installed itself considering my Previous Windows Install was 20 Months old and I never saw it once.
My NIC is an Intel I217-V Using Asus' most up to date Intel driver
My Wifi is an TP-Link WDN-3800 which is currently not being used....
Currently using the NIC.....
What would have installed this?
Edit - Seems now that this has been installed, Im logging these errors once every reboot in Event Viewer
Event ID - 1001
Source - Dhcp-Client
Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address XxXXXXXXXXXXXX. The following error occurred: 0x79. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.
According to IPCONFIG /ALL , The Physical Address for the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter, also known as wireless connection #2, is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX, the same as the output in the event Viewer.....Replaced with Xs.....well...because
This is quite annoying
Edit 2
Ive disabled the Device via Device Manager since I dont plan to use its functionality and I dont know what decided to install it. Ive ran Malware/Virus Scans using Malwarebytes, Avast and NPE and have come back clean....
This also solved the DHCP errors in Event Viewer.
Im not sure what could have done this. I've had this board, an Asus Z87-Plus, for almost two years now and this windows install in only 2 weeks old. This is the first time I have ever seen this in Device Manager, and I check things quite frequently.
I have a somewhat vague idea of what it is used for, creating a virtual wireless connection similar to VMs but I'm curious why It would have randomly installed itself considering my Previous Windows Install was 20 Months old and I never saw it once.
My NIC is an Intel I217-V Using Asus' most up to date Intel driver
My Wifi is an TP-Link WDN-3800 which is currently not being used....
Currently using the NIC.....
What would have installed this?
Edit - Seems now that this has been installed, Im logging these errors once every reboot in Event Viewer
Event ID - 1001
Source - Dhcp-Client
Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address XxXXXXXXXXXXXX. The following error occurred: 0x79. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.
According to IPCONFIG /ALL , The Physical Address for the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter, also known as wireless connection #2, is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX, the same as the output in the event Viewer.....Replaced with Xs.....well...because
This is quite annoying
Edit 2
Ive disabled the Device via Device Manager since I dont plan to use its functionality and I dont know what decided to install it. Ive ran Malware/Virus Scans using Malwarebytes, Avast and NPE and have come back clean....
This also solved the DHCP errors in Event Viewer.
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