- #WHAT IS PANDO MEDIA BOOSTER INSTALL#
- #WHAT IS PANDO MEDIA BOOSTER UPDATE#
- #WHAT IS PANDO MEDIA BOOSTER SOFTWARE#
#WHAT IS PANDO MEDIA BOOSTER UPDATE#
(Rather than having pushing you a 600MB update file, which actually costs the company money, the users might receive parts of the file from hundreds of other players.)Īnd unsuspecting user that leaves PMB.exe running on their system is pretty much being forced to seed files to thousands of users ALL THE TIME (PMB.exe has been reported by users to use up to 80+% of their internet connection’s upload bandwidth.) For some users this could lead to their ISP throttling their connection and/or actually charging them extra $$$ for using more bandwidth than they knew they were using.
#WHAT IS PANDO MEDIA BOOSTER SOFTWARE#
PMB.exe is a small application that is installed along with some free-to-use software such as League of Legends, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Lord of the Rings Online, NBC, etc… PMB.exe basically helps the company off-load the responsibly of sharing their media files, patches or installations directly by turning their user’s machines into Peer 2 Peer clients. League of Legends installed this on my computer. So, what I assume the purpose of this plugin is, is that it launches the Pando Media Booster in response to some action from the user, possibly by clicking on some appropriately MIME-typed link. Now, is Firefox suddenly spinning up connections to somewhere or has it launched the PMB.exe behind my back?! Well, no, at least not during the last five minutes.
![what is pando media booster what is pando media booster](https://ms.yugipedia.com/d/d5/BoosterDragon-SDRR-EN-C-1E.png)
![what is pando media booster what is pando media booster](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ikj43cUtTR4/TpM8UWAN0xI/AAAAAAAABSM/98aDQrSmadw/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/image.png)
Well, we can tentatively check this by using, e.g., Process Explorer, to monitor processes and specifically also to monitor all internet connections that Firefox opens (this is on the TCP/IP tab of the process properties.) Or will it, harmlessly, just start PMB when a file type of application/x-pando is clicked by you to initiate a transfer? Will it evilly start PMB whenever you start your browser and use up all of your bandwidth behind you back?! The only question remains when it will detect and launch PMB.
![what is pando media booster what is pando media booster](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/pandonetworksgameservices2011-1308883767055-phpapp01-110623215058-phpapp01/95/pando-networks-game-services-2011-6-728.jpg)
#WHAT IS PANDO MEDIA BOOSTER INSTALL#
It does not tell you that it will install a browser plugin however, and there really doesn't seem to be any good info what the plugin actually is supposed to do.īut let's take a peek at the plugin database of Firefox, located at (Win7) C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\fault\pluginreg.dat: It's a rather messy textfile, but some info is found easily enough: npPandoWebPlugin.dll|$Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Pando Networks\Media Booster\npPandoWebPlugin.dll|$Ġ|application/x-pandoPlugin|This plug-in detects and launches Pando Media Booster||$Īha! So it will "detect and launch PMB". Since I found the rant against the Pando Media Booster in the other answer a bit inadequate, I've done some research.įirst, it's clear what Pando Media Booster is and it is also clear that some (free to play?) Games use it to download the installer: For example, the free to play DDO game will tell you very clearly that it is going to use PMB to download the 3-4GB of installer data.