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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| Fire & Ice Custom Computers |
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| PMB.exe is not a virus or malware in its intended purpose - to download large files or stream media. It is just a very poorly written piece of software, that should be removed. It is not dangerous, it is simply a nucience. However, it does qualify by definition as malware based upon its behaviors. The modifying the software on your computer without permission, the usage of resources, running every start up, these are symptoms that represent malware on a system. | |||
| Random |
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| You don't get "infected" by this. You choose to install it, and in several of the games people mention here, it's right there explicit in the terms of agreement or the end user license agreement. What it does is allow you to download the game in several pieces from other users who also use PMB and have said game, both during installation and updating. On games that require it, you can terminate the process and uninstall it, but when next you update, you WILL need it and it WILL have to be active. It's no more malware than bittorrent, and it greatly eases software distribution for gaming companies, allowing you to get pieces of the game from users that already have such pieces and then allowing more uses to get those pieces from you once you have them. Nothing is hidden here, everything is quite simple an plain to see. If you want to complain about anything, complain about gaming companies who use this, not about the program, it actually is not only safe and legitimate, but also very much widespread on free-to-play games. And just to clarify on the "safe", it does not record your browsing history, does not have any history of your actions and doesn't download any piece of software onto your machine that the game you installed doesn't want to. Is it heavy on your CPU and connection? Why yes, of course, the goal of this is to minimize impact on the connection for the company that launched the game and spread that around the users. Does it help several users get the game faster than if it were located in a single server of the company? Yes, yes it does. By far. | |||
| Some Dude in Tech |
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1 44 Report Abuse | |
| Its just a P2P distribution platform for games. It is what it is if you don't want to upload the content you just downloaded to others downloading the game so be it. it is not there to screw you over though you probably wouldn;t have whatever game you downloaded without it. | |||
| Slappy |
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| Uses bandwidth when it shouldn't, probably came with League of Legends. Malwarebytes blocks this which should give a good indication that it's malware. | |||
| Jonathan R |
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| Terrible. It constantly crashes, uses up system resources, and is used by nearly every game I enjoy playing online. If that wasn't enough, it also re-installs itself frequently, without any request to do so, and without any other process requesting it. I'd recommend simply choosing a different game than installing this garbageware. | |||
| I Download Slow :3 |
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| it has his peaks and its leaks. one download will be doing 2MB per sec and other times 200KB per sec -.- whats up with that picture | |||
| upset gamer |
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1 0 Report Abuse | |
| Picked up DDO and picked up this POS unknowingly, my internet upload usage went from less than 100mb a day; to between 2-4gb on a daily basis, which resulted in a consumption of over half of my monthly internet usage... Also caused me a number of online games to lock up/terminate such as League of Legends and anything via Steam, also video streaming was heavily impacted. Removing is highly recommended. | |||
| Diaboliquin |
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1 0 Report Abuse | |
| This software use my upload without inform me. ----------- Este programa usa el ancho de banda sin decirte que lo va hacer, solo se prende y empieza a subir datos. Será legÃÂtimo el distribuidor de este software pero no el uso sin consentimiento de MI ancho de banda. | |||
| another lol player |
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| It gives you lag the browsers opens websites after 2-15minutes and games lag as hell.This was a really bad problem and i was thinking it was a pc "Problem" but now i can easilly turn it off with the task manager. | |||
| Bla |
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15 0 Report Abuse | |
| It's practice is questionable, no denying. Figured out while looking at my firewall log blocking connections. Tries to makes TCP connections port range 56000-59xxx seems there's a pattern but quite random and wide ranged. Very intensive and obstrusive, it attempts to establish outgoing connection every second. Stealth Install without obvious notification or confirmation requiring user interaction(click yes/no). Although you can check easily in control panel of its existence after installed. It does not try to hide, but it wasn't respecting You or your PC or your bandwidth either. Mostly works like Peer to peer centralized server (cloud). Which is ok, but needs to be very secure as it interacts with lots of other people/machines. Claims to be verified by verisign, related with Intel corp. seems ok, but there's no telling. Time will tell its reputation... partnered with many FreeTo Play games and media delivery provider (music/videos) Problem is it is installing without consent, questionable and intrusive methods without consent of using your PC resources and bandwidth! BE CAREFUL with your Internet Provider Plan's UPLOAD QUOTA being used up! Could be Gigabytes gone by the time u realise. Use depending on whether you need it or your application/games/media must have it running, otherwise I suggest removal. You do not really need it anyway. It Helps with your downloads (only valid with certain applications' files from PMB's partners) when you download, after that it helps other people downloads by automatically making you upload the file that you have downloaded even after you finished. P2P concept.. but there's no obvious control or monitoring for the files being transmitted up/download by you through your PC. Also it reinstalls itself (e.g. when you run the program that needs it etc) PMB is a 3rd party, partner based, downloader/uploader P2P software with questionable practices. I would remove it for whatever reason and try to run the games/media/apps in other ways... or not at all since it is supporting PMB's methods. Read the EULA and discover even more disrespectful terms from them (e.g. having unlimited connection access from you with no time limit) BAD More information | |||
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