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This is my own personal opinion based on my own observations.
Mine came with an Akasa combo card reader and USB hub.
Since the handling of insertion and removal of USB devices is handled
by Windows, I think a utility to alert the user is unecessary.
It seems to do no harm on my PC but upon investigation in to what it was,
when I found it in task manager, I came across this link.
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/umonit/.
This looks like a running services information site, but in fact is just
an advert from Uniblue for their Registry Scanner and Cleaner Utility.
All links lead to the same download page.
I have now removed Umonit.exe and my card-reader/hub works just fine
without it. To remove it I disabled, then deleted it with Mike Lin's
Startup control panel utility, (c.f.
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml) then deleted the umonit.exe from
windows/system32 after the next boot.
My view is that it is neither required nor malicious, but is insidious adware.
JG
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