I have Zone Alarm installed on my M200 and it prompts me whenever something
tries to connect to the internet.
Some application called "Toshiba pinger" keeps trying to connect.

Any idea what this is and why it wants internet access?

Searching that term on Google returns the following -

pinger - pinger.exe - Process Information
Process File: pinger or pinger.exe
Process Name: Pinger
Description: Background task for Toshiba that regularly checks for software
and driver updates.
Company: TOSHIBA Corp.
System Process: No
Security Risk ( Virus/Trojan/Worm/Adware/Spyware ): No
Common Errors: N/A


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"Steve" <steveatnowhere@nowdoesnotexist.com> wrote in message
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>I have Zone Alarm installed on my M200 and it prompts me whenever something
> tries to connect to the internet.
> Some application called "Toshiba pinger" keeps trying to connect.
>
> Any idea what this is and why it wants internet access?
>
>