PMB.exe
| File Name: | PMB.exe | ||
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| The PMB.exe process is Pando Media Booster, which is a downloader utility used by games online to download updates directly, rather than from the game company's server. It also enables your computer to get high downloading speed or streaming speed of very large files such as high-quality HDTV video, or giant games. Although the process has CPU issues sometimes, it is safe to users without malicious files. It can be removed through ‘add/remove programs’ in the Control Panel. |
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| PMB.exe is a downloader utility to speed up downloads. It causes no damage to PC performance. But spyware or virus would disguise themselves as it. Thus, make sure always check the location of the file and run anti-virus/malware software to scan and remove problems if there is any. |
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| Kravick |
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6 0 Report Abuse | |
| Got this when installing the Gamersfirst LIVE! downloader. It didn't even ask me if I wanted to install it and no where did it say anything about this program. It caused havoc with my internet connection, causing it to slow to a crawl. It was also somehow screwing with Firefox, making it crash for some reason. I only noticed PMB.exe when I went to the task manager to shut down Firefox for being unresponsive. While Pando denies this being malware, it most certainly acts like one. After removing this program and fixing the many registry errors it caused, my internet went back to working flawlessly. Seems a lot of free2play game companies are utilizing this method to distribute their game. Unfortunately, this program will destroy your bandwidth by constantly seeding anything you download, even after you've finished downloading the program. Whats worse is it will continue to operate even after you've shut down and restart your computer. | |||
| Sahugani |
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31 0 Report Abuse | |
| Doesn't seem to serve a purpose. Ate about 50% of my upload capacity and with µtorrent using the other half, I got a red latency playing WoW. Closed it down and everything back to normal. Remove this one ASAP. | |||
| angry nigg |
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34 0 Report Abuse | |
| the cunt rapes your bandwidth and doesn't pay child support | |||
| Jiggaloo |
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22 0 Report Abuse | |
| Got this garbage from LoL. I luckily caught it the next time i logged on, and closed out. Alas, it popped up again the next time i logged out / in. Malware Bytes also blocked an outgoing link from this. Remove immediately. | |||
| Bruce |
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56 0 Report Abuse | |
| I live in Canada. We have very low data caps for very expensive monthly prices. Pando Media Booster, which I had for a number of games, costed me about $60 in bandwidth charges over two months. I know this because my upload was almost on par with my download, despite me doing nothing that would involve uploading outside of light gaming, which doesn't drain 20 gigs a month. I had thought I was just downloading a ton before I checked my monthly upload usage. I open up my Resource Monitor to get to the bottom of things, and I see 20 instances of PMB.exe using about 400kb/s collectively. This piece of "software" costed me more than any virus ever has. | |||
| Anon |
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10 34 Report Abuse | |
| If you don't want it to start every single time you start your computer, just open Control Panel and click on "Pando Media Booster" there. Then uncheck "Start Media Booster when I start Windows". | |||
| jdhasflk; |
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11 0 Report Abuse | |
| i opened up my task manager to figure out what was eating up so much ram on my computer and pmb was using 1,100,000k or slightly over a gig of ram.... what is it doing that it needs to use a gig of ram and 6 mbs of my connection for!!! | |||
| Anon |
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7 1 Report Abuse | |
| I came home from work to sit at my computer and notice it running slowly. I looked at my processes and PMB.exe was leaking 1,000,000M of memory usage. | |||
| Noob | 4 1 Report Abuse | ||
| I...dont know...bur when I turned PMB.exe of My internet started work more faster | |||
| Porvuroth |
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7 0 Report Abuse | |
| This is ebaniy v zhopu piece of sh1t. | |||
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