This has been driving me mad with constant outbound firewall alerts on my PC. I had no idea what was launching ping.exe or why it needed to contact Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS server. Eventually got fed up and tracked it down with Process Monitor, to my surprise it was being launched by NTKDaemon.exe.
Easy enough to fix, right? Just disable the service, except every time you launch Native Access (currently v3.4.0) it reinstalls the service.
Why is NTKDaemon phoning home to Google when I'm not touching anything to do with any Native Instruments products? Can you please update this in future to not do that? It's unnecessary and intrusive. Everything still works if you block the ping, so it's clearly not doing anything important.