Patent ID: 8065440

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a first device to selectively hide and unhide appearance of a second device to a system, the first device selectively hiding and unhiding the appearance of the second device based upon control provided to the first device from a management console; the appearance of the second device being indicated, when the appearance of the second device is unhidden, by an icon associated with second device in a management interface of the system; and when the appearance of the second device is hidden, the second device being undetected by the system; the management console being to initiate a redirection session involving the system and the second device, the redirection session to permit repair to be made and restricted access memory to be used; the first device to control, by the hiding and unhiding of the appearance of the second device, use of a removable media device of the system to prevent unauthorized adding of software to the system via the removable media device and to prevent copying of system data using the removable media device.