PMB.exe

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.

Recommendation:

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.

Users Opinions

HackTeam_		Pando media booster is a downloader to speed up downloads for, games,music,... BUT ALSO FOR VIRUSSES and it slows down your network! 2 0 Report Abuse
Porvuroth		This is ebaniy v zhopu piece of sh1t. 5 0 Report Abuse
Trojanhunter		It increases your memory usage, until your PC freezes completely. 61 0 Report Abuse
Noob		I...dont know...bur when I turned PMB.exe of My internet started work more faster 3 0 Report Abuse
Anon		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. 7 0 Report Abuse
jdhasflk;		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!!! 7 0 Report Abuse
Anon		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". 4 31 Report Abuse
Bruce		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. 31 0 Report Abuse
Jiggaloo		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. 21 0 Report Abuse
angry nigg		the cunt rapes your bandwidth and doesn't pay child support 31 0 Report Abuse
Sahugani		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. 31 0 Report Abuse
Kravick		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. 6 0 Report Abuse
Bla		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 15 0 Report Abuse
another lol player		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. 1 0 Report Abuse
Diaboliquin		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 legítimo el distribuidor de este software pero no el uso sin consentimiento de MI ancho de banda. 1 0 Report Abuse
upset gamer		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. 1 0 Report Abuse
I Download Slow :3		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 1 0 Report Abuse
Jonathan R		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. 1 0 Report Abuse
Slappy		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. 1 0 Report Abuse
Some Dude in Tech		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. 0 41 Report Abuse
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