Strange program name when turning off computer

[Cyanproto]

Was restarting my pc today and in the usual message about these programs are preventing your pc from turning off there was a program called "newmen312_hidhost" which instantly made me suspicious, does anyone have any idea what it could be?

[Poinkachu]

8 minutes ago, Cyanproto said:

Was restarting my pc today and in the usual message about these programs are preventing your pc from turning off there was a program called "newmen312_hidhost" which instantly made me suspicious, does anyone have any idea what it could be?

Never heard, though googling "Newmen312" shows a bunch of 

 

And googling "_hidhost" gave me these as the top two result

[GuiltySpark_]

Do you have a mouse that looks like this? Newmen 312 is a mouse and HID host confirms its talking about an input device, like a mouse.

 

[Cyanproto]

17 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

Do you have a mouse that looks like this? Newmen 312 is a mouse and HID host confirms its talking about an input device, like a mouse.

 

OH that looks like an old mouse of mine that i haven't used in a year but under a different brand name?  odd, good to know it doesn't seem to be anything malicious tho, thank you!

[GuiltySpark_]

17 minutes ago, Cyanproto said:

OH that looks like an old mouse of mine that i haven't used in a year but under a different brand name?  odd, good to know it doesn't seem to be anything malicious tho, thank you!

Concerning that its still running. You may want to see if you can remove the driver.

 

https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer

[Eigenvektor]

2 hours ago, Cyanproto said:

"newmen312_hidhost"

Just for future reference HID in this context typically stands for "Human Interface Device" e.g. something like a mouse or a keyboard. A HID host is usually a program that speaks the HID protocol.