More questions came up:
LabVIEW wanted access through my firewall.
I had a look at how this thereafter was configured and found:
LabVIEW.exe, Destination: 0.0.0.0, Port 3363, Protocol TCP IN.
Now, what should that IP-address tell med?
I'm familiar with the localhost address 127.0.0.1, but what is the 0.0.0.0 address' purpose?
When I started LabVIEW later on,. it also wanted to listen to some other ports in addition to the default 3363.
I found another post on this topic: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...ssage.id=216858
My LabVIEW tried to use port 2195 too, but http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers link had nothing on that port.
I have disabled all those resource-consuming (at least during start-up) NI-services like
Lookout Citadel Server
NI-Service Locator. (I googled it and everything tells me this is potential spyware too.
Though since I've not yet seen encrypted traffic from it, it may still be harmless.
But I'm just waiting for the day when NI start using SSL to encrypt any outbound communication like Google does and many other traffic analysis servers.)
NILM License Manager
NI PSP Server Locator (I actually chose NOT to install any PSP support during installation, but still this Service was activated!)
NI Domain Service
NI Time Syncronization
Yes, everything works just fine without them.
Actually I always disable loads of XP services, though try not to compromise any security matters.