[pchelpers] Re: (no subject)

> All I know is I was told back in '99 that the printer port can be used 
> as doorway to hack into someone's computer because like COM1- 4 it is a 
> communications port.
> 
> Lexmark has spyware on my system that is constantly trying to phone 
> home. I would like to find the offending file and rename or delete it.
> 
> Tonight when I made a rule stopping my computer from communicating with 
> a Lexmark site that I didn't tell it to go to, I got a lot of ICMP and 
> UDP activity from that site.
> 
> The SpoofStick for Firefox told me that, while I thought I was at 
> Toast.net, the site I was looking at was really IM2COOL.COM.
> 
> What it all means I don't know. I thought you guys could tell me.

copy of post i sent to Bonnie 3 weeks ago:

You probably mean LEXPPS. On
www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_l.htm
they have the following interesting info about that. In short, it 
means that you don't need lexpps.exe except if you're sharing a 
Lexmark printer (and even then should probably rename it in 
Windows Explorer - let me know if you need help with that - which 
means it won't even appear in the firewall's application list 
anymore):

Lexmark Printer Port Scanner.  Background task which auto-loads 
with the rest of the printer drivers and which allows your 
Lexmark X or Z Series to be shared over a Windows peer-to-peer 
network using the conventional method of setting up a shared 
networked printer (without it, you will not be able to share the 
printer using the conventional Windows method).
Recommendation :
This task is a comprehensive nightmare. From preventing your PC 
from booting up, to interfering with your network card, to asking 
your Internet firewall for permission to install itself as a 
server application, to general PC instability, this task has 
everything to make you instantly return your Lexmark X or Z 
Series printer and go for something else, and some users have 
done so !!  In order to regain your sanity the first thing to do 
is to rename LEXPPS.EXE to LEXPPS.EXE.OLD (do it in Safe Mode if 
you cannot boot your PC normally) – this will ensure that this 
task never loads and will cure all the problems that it causes. 
If you need to network the printer over a peer to peer network, 
do not use the standard manner, instead install the printer as a 
local printer on the remote PC, and then go and change the port 
from a local port to the network share that the printer is known as.

Ekhart
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