| All comments about PnkBstrA.exe: |
 | i think it punkbuster for games, but it starts on windows? Patrick |
 | it is a game anti cheat, but it is not needed if the game is not running and they can use it as spyware |
 | punkbuster an antcheat program when playing online games |
 | America's Army DorKyurga |
| I belive this is the Punkbuster application for online games, to prevent cheating. If you do not have one of those games installed, it could be Spyware. |
 | loaded from Call of Duty2 online play, soon after began noticing suspcious behavior, ie: unusual net traffic, programs restarting on their own, etc. Andy |
| trying to detect my private hax theallknowing |
 | Online Games Anti Cheating Software See also: Link Sporty |
| Used by alot of different games as an antihacking system. Does not affect you in anyway badly Charlie |
| PunkBuster File NO VIRUS Adem |
| Helps prevent hackers playing games Andrew |
| Punkbuster used for online gaming john |
| Whenever you install a game which has punkbuster associated with it, you get this at start up, and I think PnkBstrB.exe while you are playing the game, for me it was BF2142. |
| Punkbuster!! for pc games JJ |
| Punk Buster - AntiCheat for many First Person Shooter Online Games (BF2142, CS:S, AA, etc..) See also: Link AdamX |
| It's used by the punkbuster software. See also: Link Nelson Fluckz |
| Its for Americas Army Game punkbuster program {-SMAKU-}_Jig$aw |
| It is a part of anti-cheating system used by various games. kixu |
| Wikipedia: The company is widely known from the anti-cheat program PunkBuster and is probably the only world-wide specialized company in providing those products at present. See also: Link Tony |
| Delete its a trojan/keylogger |
| Part of PunkBuster Installed with Battlefield 2142 Haggas |
| I installed americas army and it came with that it is some kind of anti cheat program if you dont have that running you will not be allowed on certain servers i hope this helps wayne =IB= JEDI [MP] |
| This is the punkbuster anti-cheat software that runs in the background. It can be disabled if you're not going to be playing the punkbuster enabled games. You will need to restart the process to play online. Even Balance has a little program you can download to aid in stopping/restarting the processes. See their website for more info: See also: Link JB |
| Necessary Firewall Punkbuster component for Video Game hacker/Cheater protectionfor many Video games. See also: Link TimoMajere |
| Service used by PunkBuster protected Video games. ( Anti-Cheats) See also: Link TimoMajere |
| its a part of the punkbuster system for the game Battlefield 2 C Beck |
| Thats Punkbuster, after update ( das ist punkbuster nach einer aktualisierung) See also: Link Mandes |
| That it is a part of punbuster for Call of duety Bob the straig chees |
| PunkBuster Dienst See also: Link suchenundfinden |
| Used for online gaming such as BattleField 2 See also: Link Tyler |
| Part of Punkbuster Anticheat program See also: Link |
| A utility to prevent cheating/hacking in online multi-player games. See also: Link Eric Johansen |
| forma parte de la ultima actualizacion del punkbuster (sistema anticheats incluido en juegos como battlefield2,call of duty 2,prey,etc...) sin el proceso funcionando punkbuster puede expulsarte de los servidores de juego Xaviss |
| it comes from playing online games, ie: bf2142, bf2 glyn321 |
| Part of the Punk Buster gaming system, checks for cheats Dr Ken Salzman |
| Punkbuster is a a monitor that checks users friendliness in online gaming. i.e if keep killing your own team or generally being a dick then it will kick you. but beware that if you disable punkbuster some games will not work like Battlefield 2142 demo. for more info on how to stop dumb shits messing about when your trying to have a serious game click on the link See also: Link TIXEVIL |
| Seems to be part of Punkbuster, an anti-cheating service for FPS games. Doesn't seem harmful but shouldn't be running on startup. |
| Punkbuster-Datei, lauscht an einem Port und dient der Erkennung von Cheatern in Spielen wie World in Conflict, Americas Army oder auch Call of Duty.Die Dateigröße unter Windows XP ist 63040 bytes. Kai Langer |
| Punk Buster is evil and is very hard to remove from a system once installed. Athena |
| new punkbuster version See also: Link joseph |
| Used By Battlefield 2142 |
| I think its BattelFeild 2142 Punk Buster Jason |
| It's the PunkBuster service used by e.g. ET Wolfenstein. It's a game extension. Willberg |
| Got it when I installed WarRock. I think it has to do with their anti-cheat system. From what I hear other MMOFPSs use this system as well. See also: Link meshif |
| This file is part of Punk Buster, an anti-cheating module found in some games, such as Wolfenstein-Enemy Territory See also: Link Wes |
| for internet gaming |
| PnkBstrA.exe and PnkBstrB.exe, both monitor for ingame hacks for popular online games. With out it you wont be able to play games that support it online. See also: Link -=§Yakko§=- |
| It's a punkbuster program which looks for cheats during gameplay (games which use punkbuster). playeer |
| Anti Game Cheater File... The Captain |
| A no cheating tool for games like Battlefield. Is loaded with the game. Sascha |
| Used for ensure cheaters are kept away from online games allstars |
| Punk Buster is installed with some online games. Mine was installed with Call of Duty 4. PnkBstrA and B are services that can be seen in MSConfig. Disabling them will only affect the quantity of server that you'll be able to connect to. If you are a online COD player you should keep those enabled since most server will have punkbuster enabled Stephane |
| PunkBuster client for online First Person Shooter games. Wolfmight |
| seems to be a backdoor trojan of some sort BP |
| laut kaspersky 7.0.0..... alles ok pitbull |
| Called Punk Buster, Installed with Call of Duty 2. Looks for known cheats on your hard drive, and reports to connected server during online play. Jeremy |
| it slows down system performance particularly for gamers Sebi Sheldin |
| Whrere it is from. His real name is Punk Buster: It´s needed for games like Battlefield 2: I think it´s not dangerous Security |
| Required file for games that use PunkBuster anti cheat program See also: Link Joe |
| Did search on my computer and file belongs to PunkBuster anti cheat program for online games. Purple44 |
| Part of the "Punk Buster" anti-cheating system for online gaming their is a PnkBstrB.exe in the same directory which is also neither dangerous nor essential |
| In my case it was malware Simon |
| a upate for punkbuster, which is used by many games, punkbuster is a program to detect hackers from games, www.evenbalance.com |
| its a punkbuster file for games |
| it is a file that evenbalance, aka Punkbuster, has made so that hackers and cheaters dont play on servers for online games like Battlefield 2. See also: Link Jon Healey |
| you need this file to play on punkbuster servers(battlefield2) Krisstuz |
| Used by Games to discover Cheats Cajos |
| Punk Buster LAN/TCIP echo program See also: Link Neuvik |
| Wow64 allows 64bit kernel to run 32bit kernel apps. See also: Link Casey |
| helps stop cheating jonno |
| verhindert das eingeben von cheats bei Call Of Duty |
| Teil der Punkbuster-Prozesse, welche für das Nutzen von Software, die über Punkbuster läuft benötigt wird. (Part of the Punkbuster-technology which is used by different games.) See also: Link Malazag |
| Its a program that is used to look for hacks or cheats for online games - if you stop this you will get kciked from punk buster protected servers EXZODIER |
| it's deigned to prevent hackers in games like Battlefield 2 See also: Link Matt |
| Park of PunkBuster Anti-cheat. Installs a service. See also: Link |
| this is system process for punk buster anti-cheat system installed by few online games. River |
| Punkbuster anti-cheat. anti-swear etc for games like BF2, BF2142, COD4 d |
| Punkbuster for many online FPS games such as Call of Duty 4, Counter-Strike Source, Half-Life2 Deathmatch, and many other STEAM games, completely harmless, however will cause games to crash if not updated from the website Mike |
| Part of Punkbuster |
| For me, it was installed when I installed America's Army. It is an anti-cheat thing that some games use. Maximus |
| Is Part of PunkBuster Anticheat-Software which is needed playing online (f.e.Battlefield). PnkBstra.exe's purpose seems to be the update of Punkbuster related files See also: Link DasChillum |
| It's punkbuster...a lot less harmful than playing someone using an aimbot, thats for sure. Jason |
| Anti cheat system processus See also: Link Mancinelli Benjami |
| Punkbuster anti-cheat gaming program Bob Carr |
| It is a program which is recommend to play WarRock - but you only need this to play but it runs all the time dei mudda |
| It has to do with PunkBuster program from Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory free game Andrey |
| This is part of Punkbuster (Anticheat software for online games) |
| its probably an anti cheat for gaming, punkbuster |
| its used by, VALVE, STEAM, CALL OF DUTY 4 KingDom |
| Anti-cheat software |
| trying to keep the l337 down |
| Part of Punkbuster Anticheat program Yufa |
| It's an anti-cheating program called Punkbuster, but can be used as spyware by the company. Just end the process if you're not playing a game. Sebasman2 |
| Haven't installed any games and had this popping up one day, guess it was malware in my case too. Pedo |
| Its used for various games, my antivirus saw it as a virus first time i used it, but its nothing special. Can be a hell to remove and or dealing with it. Nic |
| anticheat online games gavi |
| Designed as anti-cheat, it uses malicious technology and remains in memory |
| this file is for battlefield game it allows bunkbuster to watch your game to see if you are using cheats SOBPizzabob |
| Anti-Cheating System for Online Games like Battlefield or Call of Duty Dennis |
| Used for playing online games. Ex: Quake Live. Apparently used to help prevent cheating. Humphihzly |
| I think it's used by Quake Live. stalepie |
| PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software technology and services combat online cheating in some of the most popular games being played over the Internet today See also: Link comasic |
| for online games by Need For Speed gurbetelde |
| used for quake live Roger |
| Anti-cheat software. Tends to glitch up sometimes. but otherwise harmless |
| Im playing Americas Army, and I also got PunkBuster. Its Anty-Cheating system, allright. Theory |
| This is a file used in PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software for games such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc. It is not dangerous in any way. For those who found it as malware, there might be a fake file out of it. But if you got it from www.evenbalance.com or from one of the games its intergrated with, your safe as can be. It can be easily removed through registry or the people on the development team could help you as well. See also: Link Rob |
| i have two of PnkBstrA.exe running on my computer? one takes 1700kt and other 1600kt. Should i stop the other one or what would be the best solution in this case? jack |
| need for speed undercover/pb/pnkbstra.exe |
| Used in games to check wether you're cheating or not. If you kill this process, you'll not be able to play several games (e.g. Call of Duty 4, Wolfenstein ET) See also: Link Freekyboy |
| It's supposed use is to monitor your game while you play to prevent cheating, why it runs from startup is very confusing, and oddly you have to remove it from the registry, which most users won't know how to do. I personally don't trust it at all. Angry |
| It is from Evenbalance, used for anti cheating in a varity of games, needed to run on servers that look for hackers and cheaters. Needed to stay in the game or get kicked for not running the file. Also associated with punkbuster B Dan C |
| It's the biggest problem since Anti-Cheat software. PBsucks.netor Fail |
| That's just the anti cheat software used in most EA Games... and CoD's too, almost every game but not EVERY... it's totally harmless BRabbit |
| Don't know what it actually is but i got it after i installed RB6 Vegas 2 so i would have to agree with everyone else on the anti hack RB6 |
| was installed after after I installed Battlefield 2 by EA games its a anti-cheat program that moniters ea/other games scott |
| This program is designed to inhibit "cheating" while playing certain games. The problem is that this is program is poorly designed and this is where it causes problems. It should NEVER run when no games are being played; however, it runs all the time and conusmes valuable resources which slows older systems (prior 2008). So while it is not dangerous, it does often harm the performance of other applications. Doug |
| its is spyware to watch players it uses 50% cpu ik hate that sorry Joey |
| It is the PunkBuster engine, which identifies cheating in online and multiplayer games. Tobias Theebe |
| Run services.msc; Right-click PunkBuster and select Properties; From here you could know what game/program is automatically runs PnkBstrA.exe; In my case it is for Need for Speed ProStreet. ulrichxyco |
| this program stops illegal acces but when it's runing on servers usually block all connections to the server NRS |
| it is beyond annoying. it was instaled on my pc when i tried to play APB, and now i can not get rid of it. i do not have Apb anymore, i want this damn PnkBstrA GONE. however, there is ZERO way to get rid of it. i tried the "uninstal" button, and it did not work! Ticked Off. |
| Battlefield 3, so basically any game installed with online capabilities distributed from EA will install it. Not necessary, so you can end it. but no threat. See also: Link Stardust342.Tk |
| Should be gone when you delete the software, BUT is isn't. Have to DL the uninstaller to remove the syswow64 files. SlapMyFace |
| As many other sayd, PnkBstrA.exe is nothing dangerous,because many games use it as an anti-cheat program,wherefore, there are hackers who create trojans with the same process name so it can be cloaked... i turn it off on every system start-up because i stopped playing First-Person-Shooters already :) |
| this punk buster keep kicking me out of the game when i play battlefield play4free!! Ryan |
| Try to check if you cheat while online gaming (call of duty and many more can't play online if not available)) Carl |
| Unless it's not in system32, it's not dangerous. However, if PnkBstrA.exe is bugging you in the Taskmanager, even if you're not playing online, just go stop the service (Run -- services.msc), find run PnKbstrA.exe and disable it. Val |
| Punkbuster is anticheat software that is also Spyware and there for Malware. The software reads your systems memory and has the ability to Send Screenshots of your computer while it is running and also Scan and list any file on your computer. It is "required" To play on Punkbuster protected servers, however it is spyware in the fact that it continues to run even when the game is not running, it hogs memory resources and it's EULA and Privacy Policies are Illegal. Rob |
| same here and as soon as i get in I get kicked out and on top of that I don't cheat on Battlefield p4f skulldystroyorz |
| Cheatschutz 127.0.0.1 |
| Punkbuster anti-cheat engine Windmilling Junk |
| Anti-Cheats in online games Nox |
| "Forced down the throat" so to speak when installing various games; however instead of running as part of THAT game it runs at start-up and is known to cause problems with several other games in the process. Restrictive program that runs unnessarily. DontCare |
| All i know is my computer got hacked when i joined a foreign server in battlefield. This software did nothing for me. A man whos upset |
| when trying to run private server for a game that doesnt use this it blocks the ports or acts like a firewall, but def an anti-cheat junk crap will delete the game its being used by Preston Baes |
| That it scans your PC all the time, does not detect hacks and mainly is just a horrible piece of software See also: Link TheTruth |
| Punkbuster - an anti-cheating device used by many play-for-free games. Stefan B. |
| Anti-cheat for Battlefield 3 |
| It effects the way you can play online!e.g. Assassins creed brotherhood multiplayer! ----------- |
| Unless it's not in system32, it's not dangerous. However, if PnkBstrA.exe is bugging you in the Taskmanager, even if you're not playing online, just go stop the service (Run -- services.msc), find run PnKbstrA.exe and disable it. Competent SEO |
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