Having JUST gone through the process of being approved for self-study CEH examination, I know exactly what you mean. Here is the deal:

1. Go Here and fill it out: https://cert.eccouncil.org/Exam-Eligibility-Form

2. Someone will email you with the forms needed. Sign and fax them in, including the $100 billing form. Be sure to write your supervisor's contact info somewhere because there is no place for it. (Conflicting forms, I know).

3. They will email your supervisor with a PDF for him to fill out and fax in to them. Within 1 week, ask your supervisor if he's gotten this form. If not, email either "applicationservices[at]eccouncil[dot]org" or the person who contacted you, if they emailed you from their own address.

4. Within 2-3 weeks, follow up with same email addresses mentioned above and ask them if they have everything needed for testing approval processing.

5. Once they approve you via email, you will have to fill out the same "billing" form again for the $500 VUE voucher purchase.

6. Within 3-5 business days, you will receive your voucher number via email, along with your EC Council approval number that authorizes you to take the test.

7. Currently, I'm scheduling my test date now, hopefully for next week!

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It took me forever to get all of this done and I've complained to them in great detail about their lack of uniformity on the website with conflicting documents and link redirects that really detracts from the expected professionalism. Pain in the butt, and I'm really hoping that submitting my ECE's every year isn't equally painful.

That is the same guy that was arrested a few days ago that LulzSec has denounced all over Twitter as not being an actual member and blaming news media for putting out coverage on false information. Who knows, could be or maybe he isn't.

Hacker on hacker action, interesting. On3iroi setup a wordpress site announcing some operations: https://on3iroi.wordpress.com. He claims to be the one that took their site down.

I hope to take it again in the future. I don't know about anyone else, but working night shift full-time and going to school full-time really killed my ability to finish PWB. I highly recommend you set aside enough time to dedicate to the course before shelling out the money. There are a lot of puzzles to solve, so sitting down for 30 minutes here and there just will not cut it. I loved the material and learned a lot, but wish I had realized the commitment level before going in. Good luck!!

I imagine you've done your searching around, but I did as well and found this article: http://www.anti-forensics.com/delete-usb-device-history-from-the-windows-registry-usbstor-key-and-the-setupapilog

Have you checked the "C:\Windows\setupapi.dev.log" file for an entry? I would've certainly thought to remove the registry entry, but not to go into this file and erase mention. Check each fo the [DEVICE INSTALL] sections for the specific device you are seeking.