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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| Docterjoe |
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| It comes with LOTRO. It will spam the fuck out of your network. It will make you unable to do anything that requires low latency, such as gaming. Uninstall as fast as possible. | |||
| Matthew Cash |
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| It was chewing up my uplink, bringing my connection down from 3 mbps to sub-56k speeds. If they had an option to throttle the upload, i would't see any issues, otherwise I would recommend killing it. | |||
| Willem |
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| This is indeed most likely from Pando. While many companies do use it to transfer data, and it won't intently do malicious things to your computer, it can have some negative side effects as mentioned. Can take up unnecessary resources and bandwidth. Just disable it in startups or uninstall it and it shouldn't be an issue | |||
| KC |
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| It slows down your internet, have to fix the registry immediately after using the product to download a game. It's a curse, avoid at all costs. | |||
| PMBrapesbandwidth |
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| I bought a ATI sapphire 5970 graphics card. Part of that I got LOTRO (Lord of the Rings online).Said 5 hours to download. My average download speed 900KB/sec (Australia). With PMB.exe it raped 400KB/sec from me. I left this running and went to bed, wake up to see my ADSL+2 lights going nuts...Now I have to wait till my ISP updates my data usage for today. PMB.exe is a nasty MALWARE program that steals your bandwith without your permission. | |||
| foo |
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| There is no good reason this wants admin rights to your system. If it were only to download and upload game data, it wouldn't need them. So there is a good reason to assume it is doing something else, less legitimate on your system. | |||
| DarkAudio |
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| I didn't choose to install that shit so that's a malware. I don't care what's that for. | |||
| Troy |
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| You can access PMB's settings in the control panel. You can select to not run with windows startup and then also shut the service down. Then it won't run until another application calls it to download something. | |||
| Keiishi |
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| It seems to be used in a bunch of downloader at the moment, but should be uninstaller asap,i didn't notice it until it was too late, but this little bugger used my bandwidth like hell and had me use too much of it for a month, had to pay fuckin 50$ extra for my internet on that month. (July 2010) Uninstall, it's pretty much useless for your anyday activities and unless you have an unlimited download/upload connection, it'll fuck you up. | |||
| John |
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| Came with LOTRO. Completely trashed my internet. It was doing 1,000s of connections per minute over 20+ ports. Caused my pings to be 500ms+ and used about 80% of my upload. If you must use this uninstall it afterwords. | |||
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