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

How to fix shellmon.exe related problems?
1. Run Security Task Manager to check your shellmon process
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Process name: setupdb or waolmon

Product: America Online or AOL or Rocket Mania Deluxe or waol or UnInstall Envy24 Family Audio or Adobe Integrated Runtime or Roxio Easy Media Creator (version 8)

Support: Help link ☒   Update link ☒   Uninstall tool ☒  

Company: America Online (www.aol.com) or AOL (www.aol.com)

File: shellmon.exe


shellmon.exe is installed as part of America Online ISP and with the free AOL client 8.0 and upwards. It works in the background of aolware.exe or aolsoftware.exe depending on the version of the installed AOL client.http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/shellmon.exe.html 

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Note: Any malware can be named anything - so you should check where the files of the running processes are located on your disk. If a "non-Microsoft" .exe file is located in the C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32 folder, then there is a high risk for a virus, spyware, trojan or worm infection! Check it out!


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Users Opinions

Average user rating of shellmon.exe: 2.5 based on 8 votes. Read also the 11 reviews.

550 users ask for this file. 1 user rated it as not dangerous. 2 users rated it as neutral. 4 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 1 user rated it as dangerous. 5 users didn't rate it ("don't know").


All comments about shellmon.exe:
rate3 shellmon.exe is an application from AOL which belongs to the Eolithic Task. It is installed with AOL version 8 and later. This program is a non-essential process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.  
rate1 part of AOL   DC the MCSE
rate4 If infected can create havok by opening webpages on its own.   Casey McCune
rate4 emerges or pops up in rectangle about once every 12 startups with HP product   Nannette
rate4 It always opens on my computer and I can't get rid of it.   Sara Villaro
rate0 All I know is when I turned my computer off the other night, there was absolutely no sign of any program running, but before windows would shut down it said "ending program shellmon" then after it ended that, my computer shut down as I wanted it to. So I don't know if that's a bad thing or not? Can anyone tell me?   Young Ma
rate0 program\americ~2.0\shellmon.exe  
rate0 when my computer is slow loading sites, it is the culprit   hollykay
rate0 When I go to shut down, it says ending shellmon.exe?  
rate0 shellmon.exe Can be shutoff if you first turnoff the aolware.exe process, then shutoff shellmon.exe process. Otherwise shellmon will keep returning to the process list immediately even if you try to shut off the entire process tree.   ca Collister
rate3 not much except it is denied when you call aol   John

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