Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> Me writes:
>
> >  A firewall such as ZoneAlarm will in fact block the keyboards
> >  internet access.  Zone alarm was how I detected the keyboards
> >  attempts to access the net in the first place.

To repeat a piece of a post a few days ago:

> I found a driver for the HP keyboard that disabled the pinging at
> www.netropa.com and they have drivers listed for many different
> manufacturers. I don't know if the pinging was limited to the HP
> drivers or not but the file I downloaded and used to fix the problem
> was hp2506gn.zip.

So there is at least a fix for the keyboard driver.  As for any other
quirks that are likely pre-installed in HP PCs, I'd follow Wirt's advice
of reinstalling Windows cleanly before you install too much of
your own customized software that you may [not] be able to reinstall.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>