At 00:31 10/01/01 -0600, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>re: HP keyboard pinging to address 207.26.131.137
>
>I found the web site for the vendor that produces the OEM keyboard
>driver (mmkeybd.exe) that HP and apparently many other PC makers use
>for their "Internet enabled" keyboards. The constant pinging caused by
>the original driver was driving me crazy since it provoked a hard drive
>read on my access/firewall server every second or so.

If you have an ISDN router as I do, it means that the router will never 
disconnect (unless you build a filter for it).  This is a serious 
consideration in the UK where the call costs around 7¢ a minute!  There is 
also an irritating default in Windows causing it to do a DNS lookup every 
five minutes or so.  I know how to disable this in the registry, but it 
somehow keeps coming back.  God (AKA Bill Gates) only knows why.

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