Is Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd a threat?

[Remah]

@ThatOne99

Hi. The device name “HonHaiPr” has skipped around to a number of my devices over the past year and there is no good reason for this. Once the PS4, today, the Hp laptop. When not mysteriously showing up as “HonHaiPr” these devices are appropriately labeled as they should be, as one would expect to see them with their actual manufacturer listed where it should be.

The issue you raise in the quoted text above is unlikely to be a cause for concern.

There is a very good reason why “HonHaiPr” would appear in the manner you describe. Hon Hai Precision makes network cards for Sony Playstations and several other computer brands.

The network card name will appear as the device name at some levels of the network model but not at all levels. At layer 2, the Data Link Layer, where Ethernet operates, the devices are often network cards identified by their MAC addresses. Or at layer 3, the Network Layer, the two network cards would be identified by their IP addresses. But at layer 4 or higher, those network card device names don’t normally appear.

As far as I know, GlassWire generally identifies devices at layer 3 with the ability to scan (ARP) devices at layer 2.

The rest of your post probably belongs in a separate topic as it appears unrelated to this one.