Paying a third party to cover some aspect of your security or delivery isn’t really a bad idea, but it’s not the best either. They annoy people in the way that some of the well-known security programs annoy people (If you’ve played enough free-to-play MMOs you know I’m talking about X-trap and similar programs). I only have half-baked opinions, so take them with a giant chunk of salt. Why is Turbine using this again?Īnyway, a general FYI - if you have this on your computer, at least go into msconfig.exe and uncheck it from starting up every time you turn your machine on. I don’t mind downloader helpers, fine, but keeping it running without asking me about it and having it choke up my internet connection got me pretty ticked off. Seriously, I didn’t know this was on my computer until today, and once I did, I found a nice FAQ on the DDO forums telling you how to get rid of it or disable it. Some players have even labeled it malware. PMB is supposed to help with downloading large files (like MMOs), but there’s quite a few reports on it doing what it’s done to me - slowing a computer’s internet speeds down by running in the background and engaging in cloud computing without you knowing about it. So how’d it get on my machine? Google search for the program instantly turned up DDO and LOTRO as the top search results. Disabled it and *poof*, my speeds are back to normal. Turns out, it was a program called Pando Media Booster (pmb.exe). Then we went into the processes and started shutting them down one at a time until we found the one that was crippling our internet.
The tech thought I had a virus or spyware that was eating up all of our bandwidth, and I ran a full series of scans to verify that it was clean. Today I spent over an hour with two different technicians trying to fix the problem, restarting the modem, testing each computer one at a time, only to discover that the issue was my computer. After doing a couple speed tests and seeing ping numbers off the chart (well into the four digits) and upload/download speeds crawling, we got worried that our internet provider was throttling us or something happened to the service.
So the past couple days, internet speeds in our house have been abysmal.
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