My HP laptop had a similar issue: the fingerprint software (made by Authentec, owned by Apple) wanted an online connection for no good reason (I blocked it with

My HP laptop had a similar issue: the fingerprint software (made by Authentec, owned by Apple) wanted an online connection for no good reason (I blocked it with a firewall), and the control buttons software used to run a dozen instances of a "DownloadAD.exe", taking up to 500 MB of RAM for no reason whatsoever (I deleted the executable). So duck these kinds of software/services that the owner of the hardware "doesn't need to know/worry about".