If you will visit the Community Forum for your particular model
Pavilion, the PavTechs will tell you how to disable the redirect.

Hope this helps

Me wrote:
>
> Not chicken little and not in need of medication. I don't use my real name
> in any newsgroups to avoid having my email overrun & spammed etc..
>
> 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.
>
> After contacting HP I was told (excerpt from their response): "I can assure
> you that we are not gathering any more information from you than other
> websites do when you visit them.  I am sure you understand this about
> cookies so I will not elaborate."
>
> Cookies are browser controlled and as such have no real access to the actual
> machine thus no way of gathering system information. And cookies can be
> disabled. The keyboard driver is a system diver and as such has complete
> access to all information on the system.
>
> As I said zone alarm can block the access but I don't believe we should we
> be forced to block something that shouldn't be there in the first place.
>
> To the person mentioning the Microsoft keyboard - Thanks - I had considered
> replacing the HP one with a MS one - now I know that doesn't solve the
> problem.