Cyberlink takes every step possible to connect to the internet, even to the point of opening holes in windows firewall, mcaffee, norton, panda, and avast. These holes are hidden to the user and I found them only by going to www.auditmypc.com. Upon my disabling the service, this program began to find other ways to connect to the internet. Like I said, if it was possible to connect even by routing through several services, it would.