matcli.exe ?

i have a program that stars up when i start up my computer called matcli.exe
i read about matcli.exe along with silent.exe here.. http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/browse.php?l=19&start=200&end=225 where it says..
"For Compaq PC's. "matcli.exe is a motive Assistant Command line interface that gathers information about your system's identity like your name email address, city, state, etc and gets written to a log file while silent.exe executes matcli.exe quietly in the background. Compaq Knowledge Center is required to run with the Help and Support program. If you uncheck Compaq Knowledge Center and and then run help and Support it will add another Compaq Knowledge Center in the startup menu. If you remove the Compaq Knowledge Center in the add/remove program some help menus in help and support will not be available like Fix my Presario, Preference, and Contact Technical Support". You decide."

i know this was installed when i installed my Hewlett-Packard printer.

if i understand this, this is spyware?
this can give away my personal online information?
is this safe to leave be?
if i remove this, will my HP printer still work?

 

thanx. i removed it.