Thanks.
One of these days, I'll finally get it through my thick head that Google is a resource to be mined. Not as usefull as the Omnicient LRPD, but quite useful nonetheless.
So all the cpd.exe activity was the firewall rejecting attempts by the renegade svchost to phone home. Nice...just like it's supposed to!
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT