Good morning everyone :

After installing HMIP (with premium service), the Symantec Network Proxy Service (ccProxy.exe) crashes every few minutes. I have set HMIP to not load at startup, but even after a restart this keeps happening.

It looks like HMIP and the Symantec proxy service are treading on each other's toes in some way.

Does anybody know how to fix this ?

Thanks for your help

Generally speaking, software that uses proxy servers can conflict with one another, causing unknown problems. Hide My IP also uses a proxy server.

There have been other situations reported similar to yours and it appears these folks do not have Hide My IP:

Error: "Symantec Network Proxy Service has encountered a problem and needs to close"
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nip.n....nsf&view=0

Symantec Network Proxy service terminated unexpectedly
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/I...Q_22556276.html

"ccProxy" can run at start up. Part of Norton Internet Security, proxy server that is used to support the parental controls. If you turn parental controls off at user level the process is not loaded. Reported to cause excessive CPU usage"
http://www.file.net/process/ccproxy.exe.html

CCProxy - Proxy Server Software for Windows
http://www.youngzsoft.net/ccproxy/

Why CCProxy stop work on XP machine with SP2?
http://www.youngzsoft.net/ccproxy/faq_13.htm

This issue has been resolved in the latest release of Hide My IP 2008.