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Can VIPRE be installed and run from a USB flash drive? If so, how? Thanks!

My home network is on private IP (192.168.1.*) which is NAT'd through my network firewall. On SPF, I am seeing connections from spoolsv.exe to another Private IP network (172.16.10.*) on port 49152. I have now denied an outbound connection to the Internet for spoolsv.exe, and it is showing up regularly in the log (4-5 per sec). I can't figure out how my network is routing to a 172.16.10.* address, but i was able to do a trace to the host. How is that possible? I am not running any VPN software that I am aware of. I do have Cisco VPN installed, but not running.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

JGK

I need some help with SPF and problems with HP All-in-one devices. I have two network multi-functions (print/scan/fax) which use HP's 'Digital Imaging Monitor' software and Service Location Protocol (SLP).

Here is the primary problem: If SPF is running, a svchost process hosting the HP Pml Driver HPZ12 service has very high CPU usage. If I shut down SPF, all is OK. My HP printer seems to work OK, I can access the various status and settings through the HP Digital Imaging Monitor icon in the system tray. But the computer becomes very slow and unresponsive. In SPF connections tab, I see that the service host has very high 'outbound' byte counts (currently showing 2.2 mil), with much lower 'inbound' byte counts (426 k) on UDP port 427 used by svchost.

I suspect that SPF is blocking status chats between printer and the HP software on my PC.

I also have VIPRE installed, but don't think that is causing any problems.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

JGK