[calvin-c]

Bought a Lexmark wireless printer & am now getting a popup about the Printer Card Transfer Monitor trying to connect. That wouldn't be a problem, except it's trying to connect to an Internet address! Anybody have any ideas why it would do that?

All my PC's are on the 192.168.x.x network-and the printer appears to be also (that's the address that appears in the printer config applicaiton). So why would the monitor try to connect to 199.7.51.190?

TIA

[SIR****TMG]

ET calling home perhaps?

[calvin-c]

That's what I'm thinking. Unless somebody can come up with a legitimate reason for it, I'm calling it spyware. Thanks.

[lunarlander]

I looked up the address 199.7.51.190 and it belongs to Verisign.

[calvin-c]

Interesting. I still don't see any reason for this process to contact them. What could it be doing-verifying the digital ID of the printer? Why would a printer have a digital ID? I suppose Lexmark could be encrypting all the traffic sent to/from the printer. If so then it means that *they* are trying to control my network-or at least that portion of it. (FWIW all my wireless traffic is encrypted-but that's my decision, not Lexmark's.) And if that were true then blocking the connection, as I've done, should disable the printer.

So it still doesn't sound like there's a legitimate reason for this. Another vendor makes it to my 'do not buy from' list. If this keeps up I might have to give up computers entirely. Thanks, all.