Process name: setupdb or waolmon
Product: America Online or shellmon.exe or AOL or Home Cinema XL II or Math Flight v or DVD Solution or Mjuice Components or Adobe Acrobat or Rocket Mania Deluxe or UnInstall Envy24 Family Audio or Roxio Easy Media Creator or Spyware Terminator or Mozilla Firefox or Adobe Integrated Runtime or ATI MCE Transcode or SmartSound Quicktracks Plugin or Media Jukebox or Sony Ericsson Device Data or Adobe AIR
Company: America Online, Inc (www.aol.com) or AOL, LLC
File: shellmon.exe

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Users Opinions

539 users ask for this file. 5 users didn't rate it ("don't know"). 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.

All comments about shellmon.exe: 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. DC the MCSE part of AOL Casey McCune If infected can create havok by opening webpages on its own. Nannette emerges or pops up in rectangle about once every 12 startups with HP product Sara Villaro It always opens on my computer and I can't get rid of it. Young Ma 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? program\americ~2.0\shellmon.exe hollykay when my computer is slow loading sites, it is the culprit When I go to shut down, it says ending shellmon.exe? ca Collister 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. John not much except it is denied when you call aol If you know more about shellmon.exe, share your knowledge and help other users. Security Rating:  --- don't know ---  1 (not dangerous)  2  3 (neutral)  4  5 (dangerous) What do you know about this file: Link for more details: Your Name:

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