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A few times a day, my Kaspersky Antivirus identifies and displays the following message:

Riskware / Invader
Running process (PID:1924):
c:\windows\system32\HPZinw12.exe

or a similar message with "PID:1924" being something different than that.

I always click on "Do Not Allow", but I am wondering what this is and if I alow it, if it could damage my system files. How can I get rid of it? When I run Kaspersky, it doesn't identify it and let me delete it.

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Do you have HP's multifunction printer? Then the file c:\windows\system32\HPZinw12.exe is okay, a driver. Get Kaspersky to ignore it.

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