Why is Epson spying on us?

[ato_zee]

Epson's printer drivers keep asking for
Bidirectional Network Access for
E_SRUN03.exe and EPIBSR10.exe
which seem to be in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86
and
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
I have installed several printers over time so I'm not
sure which printers, drivers, are involved.
I think there are other Epson related .exe's.

Is Epson spying on me?
Are they checking to see if I'm refilling my cartridges?
Maybe they are spying on me to see if I'm printing
images of currency, or kiddy porn.

I've been alright since I came off the medication,
but now I'm getting paranoid again, and can't sleep
because of the worry.

Why are they spying on me and what are these
..exe's that keep triggering my firewall?
Do printers have to call home.

Please help.

 

[Al Bundy]

Epson's printer drivers keep asking for
Bidirectional Network Access for
E_SRUN03.exe and EPIBSR10.exe
which seem to be in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86
and
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
I have installed several printers over time so I'm not
sure which printers, drivers, are involved.
I think there are other Epson related .exe's.

Is Epson spying on me?
Are they checking to see if I'm refilling my cartridges?
Maybe they are spying on me to see if I'm printing
images of currency, or kiddy porn.

I've been alright since I came off the medication,
but now I'm getting paranoid again, and can't sleep
because of the worry.

Why are they spying on me and what are these
.exe's that keep triggering my firewall?
Do printers have to call home.

Please help.

I seriously doubt Epson cares what you are doing except they would
like you to replace that old printer or buy lots of expensive carts
for it.
I'd say to remove the software and re-add it. The drivers may be
corrupt or not in the right file.

 

[William R. Walsh]

Hi!

Is Epson spying on me?

What does your firewall say that these programs are trying to do? In order
to make a really educated guess or offer an answer, it would help to know if
you could find out what port and IP address the programs are trying to
reach.

William

 

[Jimmy]

Epson's printer drivers keep asking for
Bidirectional Network Access for
E_SRUN03.exe and EPIBSR10.exe
which seem to be in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86
and
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
I have installed several printers over time so I'm not
sure which printers, drivers, are involved.
I think there are other Epson related .exe's.

Is Epson spying on me?
Are they checking to see if I'm refilling my cartridges?
Maybe they are spying on me to see if I'm printing
images of currency, or kiddy porn.

I've been alright since I came off the medication,
but now I'm getting paranoid again, and can't sleep
because of the worry.

Why are they spying on me and what are these
.exe's that keep triggering my firewall?
Do printers have to call home.

Please help.

Did you have a Epson printer setup up as a network printer at one time? If
you did, go into my network and remove the printer if necessary.

 

[B. Peg]

Epson's printer drivers keep asking for

Bidirectional Network Access for
E_SRUN03.exe and EPIBSR10.exe
which seem to be in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86
and
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
I have installed several printers over time so I'm not
sure which printers, drivers, are involved.
I think there are other Epson related .exe's.

Is Epson spying on me?
Are they checking to see if I'm refilling my cartridges?
Maybe they are spying on me to see if I'm printing
images of currency, or kiddy porn.

Why are they spying on me and what are these
.exe's that keep triggering my firewall?
Do printers have to call home.

Several years ago I bought an HP office printer. Soon I got a call from HP
thanking me for the purchase, etc. Then the guy asked "Would it be okay
with you if we monitored your computer's printer usage?". He explained that
the HP software had installed some programs that allowed it to communicate
with home. I said, "No, it wouldn't be okay with me." He got a bit
belligerent and asked "Why? Since I had already installed it." Sheesh! No
doubt they still did monitor it (or whatever) as I didn't have a firewall
then.

It just didn't sit right. Now I use one computer that is online usage only
and the other that does all the other stuff has no modem nor internet
connection - ever. Oddly, the one with no internet connection seems to run
better. Maybe it lacks too many updates, phone homes, patches, or trojans?

 

[SamSez]

Several years ago I bought an HP office printer. Soon I got a call
from HP thanking me for the purchase, etc. Then the guy asked "Would
it be okay with you if we monitored your computer's printer usage?".
He explained that the HP software had installed some programs that
allowed it to communicate with home. I said, "No, it wouldn't be okay
with me." He got a bit belligerent and asked "Why? Since I had
already installed it." Sheesh! No doubt they still did monitor it
(or whatever) as I didn't have a firewall then.

It just didn't sit right. Now I use one computer that is online usage
only and the other that does all the other stuff has no modem nor
internet connection - ever. Oddly, the one with no internet
connection seems to run better. Maybe it lacks too many updates,
phone homes, patches, or trojans?

Hp only spies on board members -- not customers. If you had actually
participated in one of their usage studies, you would know that you have
to send the data yourself after running the summary yourself.

Plonk.

 

[ASAAR]

Epson's printer drivers keep asking for
Bidirectional Network Access for
E_SRUN03.exe and EPIBSR10.exe
which seem to be in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86
and
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
I have installed several printers over time so I'm not
sure which printers, drivers, are involved.
I think there are other Epson related .exe's.

Is Epson spying on me?

I once needed to remove bidirectional support for an HP printer
because a conflict with another parallel port driver made the
printer work about 20 times slower whenever that other driver was
loaded. The only loss, after communication with the printer became
one-way was that it was no longer possible to use HP's utilities to
check ink levels, have the printer send various warnings to the
computer, etc. Since you're getting Bidirectional Network Access
requests, do you have Windows configured to allow other computers to
print to your local Epson printer? If so, the purpose of the
request might be to allow those other users to also receive warnings
and notices from the printer ("print job complete", "out of paper",
"out of ink", etc.) If Epson wanted to "phone home" it wouldn't
request bidirectional printer support, it would try to use the
internet, and a decent firewall would trap any such attempts, and
depending on how it was configured, either automatically reject
those attempts or ask you whether to allow or disallow it.

 

[Meander Holefield]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in

Epson's printer drivers keep asking for
Bidirectional Network Access for
E_SRUN03.exe and EPIBSR10.exe
which seem to be in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86
and
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
I have installed several printers over time so I'm not
sure which printers, drivers, are involved.
I think there are other Epson related .exe's.

Is Epson spying on me?
Are they checking to see if I'm refilling my cartridges?
Maybe they are spying on me to see if I'm printing
images of currency, or kiddy porn.

I've been alright since I came off the medication,
but now I'm getting paranoid again, and can't sleep
because of the worry.

Why are they spying on me and what are these
.exe's that keep triggering my firewall?
Do printers have to call home.

Please help.

I'm similarly paranoid. I wonder about the same thing. We have a Brother
Multi-Function machine with a built in Ethernet port and the Brother
drivers never set off the firewall to monitor/print to the Brother. The
Epson driver, however, set off the firewall so much that I finally had to
give the firewall instructions to permanently disallow Epson programs to
make a network connection.

Strangely, even with those Epson programs prohibited from network access
(supposedly), the Epson drivers still print to Epson printers over our
network and the Epson drivers still report the same progress information
backc to the client computers.

So, why do the Epson drivers still perform properly over the network even
though they've been denied internet access?

Why are the Epson drivers contacting the DNS server at my ISP?

I, too, am paranoid if you are paranoid.

However ...

.... let's remember Henry Kissinger's advice ... "You may be paranoid but
that doesn't mean they're not watching you!"

//rus\\

 

[measekite]

Now Now

Epson does not spy on users who use Epson OEM ink.

 

[ato_zee]

So, why do the Epson drivers still perform properly over the network even
though they've been denied internet access?

Why are the Epson drivers contacting the DNS server at my ISP?

I, too, am paranoid if you are paranoid.

Think I've cracked it. Epson are checking the EAROM and EPROM
in your printer to see if you are refilling, if so they permanently turn
off a few nozzes. That's why we are seeing what we assume
to be clogs from shiddy refill ink, it's no the ink at all.

 

[measekite]

:-D Now duz dis take branes :-D

Think I've cracked it. Epson are checking the EAROM and EPROM
in your printer to see if you are refilling, if so they permanently turn
off a few nozzes. That's why we are seeing what we assume
to be clogs from shiddy refill ink, it's no the ink at all.

 

[Meander Holefield]

:-D Now duz dis take branes :-D

Sounds bizarre I admit. I had to chuckle. On the other hand, I know that
50 bits destined for my printer's chip registers could easily slip through
"sniffers" while I watch and I'd never even notice it.

//rus\\

 

[Chuck]

Think of the class action lawsuit and DMA criminal prosecutions!