What is PCMService.exe? Is PCMService.exe spyware or a virus?

What are you to do to fix PCMService.exe related problems?
1. Run Security Task Manager to check your PCMService.exe process
2. Run Registry Booster to fix PCMService.exe related errors
3. Run Spyware Doctor to remove persistent malware

Process name: PowerCinema Resident Program for Dell or CyberLink PowerCinema Resident Program or PCMService MFC Application
Product: PCM2Launcher Application or Cyberlink PowerCinema or PCMService Application or Pinnacle MPEG Realtime Codec or CINEMA 4D Module 'Sketch and or PCMService.exe or Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook or Sony Ericsson Device Data or Acer Empowering Technology
Company: CyberLink Corp (www.gocyberlink.com)
File: PCMService.exe


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Lukas Hetzenecker PowerCinema - mit diesem Programm funktioniert, so viel ich weiß, die Fernbedienung
Risker It's the resident program for the Power Cinema feature. This usually comes already installed on certain media-based PC's, like Packard Bell's. It simply discovers the USB infra-red reciever and then relays the signals into the program.
Power cinema related, but it constantly checking files
Maisie Sinclair On my Dell Computor at purchase--I removed it--on my firewall program--it keeps returning and I block
On my Dell dimension : disables the "display window content while moving" feature at boot time = removed it !
L Installed by default on some computers for PowerCinema. Mine checks the hdd for a file that doesnt exist twice every second so I have consistent hdd activity.
Strider Comes installed on Dell laptops
Muflash Steuertreiber für Cyberlink PowerCinema Fernbedienung, oft in Verbindung mit X10 Treiber!
Visual Basic.net Diese Datei ist für die Fernbedinung von "PowerCinema" zuständig. Ohne dieses Programm lässt sich "PowerCinema" nicht mehr mit der Fernbedinung starten.
Night Hawk Cyber Link "Home Cinema" sicher
Phantom it take up a lot of CPU resources consistently on my system now; however that was not always the case
Rant came on my dell and it chews up about half my memory and is constantly having page faults. Blocked it with my firewall.
PowerCinema process. Can be killed without harm
Vasyly On a new Inspiron I just bought, it lauches a new thread every 10 seconds. I had almost 2000 threads on this process at once.
vty Not malware, but chewed up huge resources (way too many handles and threads) on my system until it began causing other programs to crash. Came installed on my Dell laptop, part of MediaDirect and related to Cyberlink Power Cinema. Uninstalled MediaDirect, and my laptop's happy again.
danielp Dell MediaDirect, you can remove it if you want, and if you choose to manually install your own laptop and not use the preinstalled OS then you can simply not install it.
Lefty It's not a virus, but it is a memory hog. I'm running an Apache web server, MySQL database, Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver (all known resource intensive programs) and PCMService is always the most resource hungry application according to Task Manager.
Anne I noticed nothing was running on my PC yet CPU usage was way up. So I googled PCMservice.exe and found your very useful comments. I will attempt to remove it.
Cory Snavely Mine leaks memory, like 100s of MBs. CyberDirect Tech Support said it's not necessary unless you use remote control features of PowerCinema (Dell MediaDirect).
Nancy Jackson when this file is run from startup, no screensaver will run and the computer will not shut down automaticaly to hibernate or standby.
Winstonse belastet die CPU nach PC-standby-Zeiten für mehrere Minuten extrem; als Folge lange Antwortzeiten

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