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Process name: SoundMAX service agent component

Product: SoundMAX service agent

Company: Analog Devices, Inc.

File: smagent.exe

Security Rating: 1


"smagent.exe" is a SoundMAX service component from Analog Devices, Inc. Is part of the audio drivers on certain Asus motherboards and possibly other components. http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/smagent.exe.html 

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Average user rating of smagent.exe: 4.5 based on 93 votes. Read also the 70 reviews.

1419 users ask for this file. 75 users rated it as not dangerous. 3 users rated it as not so dangerous. 5 users rated it as neutral. 1 user rated it as little bit dangerous. 9 users rated it as dangerous. 7 users didn't rate it ("don't know").


All comments about smagent.exe:
rate1 Soundma Service Agent component. Drivers/Programs for speakers.   Anonymous
rate1 installs on most modern asus motherboards with integrated sound  See also: Link   James
rate3 "smagent.exe" is a SoundMAX service component from Analog Devices, Inc. Is part of the audio driver on a ASUS "P4C800 Deluxe"-Mainboard.   Pat Estrada
rate1 as above - on vaio laptops is common  
rate1 Comes with drivers   Carlos Averett
rate1 it appeared with the installation of a new ASUS motherboard. it is related to the sound drivers. can be disabled without system problems.  See also: Link   Pablo Dopico
rate1 i have a Sound Max sound card and the process Smagent.exe starts early in boot shorty after explorer.exe puls i see a 64k mem usage   J Parker
rate2 Believe it came w AC97 / SoundMAX sound devices. Probably to alert U of audio driver updates.  See also: Link   Rock
rate1 IBM NetVistas use soundMAX .  
rate1 Also on Asus NCCH-DL   Andy
rate1 It comes installed by default on Toshiba M200 series Tablets   keshozeto
rate3 On compaq d530's as well ..   moggle
rate1 Sound subsystem driver on many asus MB's  See also: Link   Ben!
rate1 SoundMAX Audio Agent   John(xtrance)
rate1 audio driver for Asus K8VSE deluxe motherboard, not harmful at all!  See also: Link   M. Jordan
rate1 SoundMax background service   David
rate1 Not harmful at all. It's just for onboard audio and such.   Dav0
rate1 also present on HP nc6000 laptops  
rate1 Comes up on Compaq Evo notebooks as well   enzuigiri
rate2 as everyone says, part of the soundmax applications that come with many Motherboards that use the soundmax ac97 codec   Will
rate1 SoundMax Drivers  See also: Link   Nisroc
rate1 agent for the soundman sound system, found on ADI and Intel chipsets/motherboards  See also: Link   Karl
rate1 nothing, just it is a siund card driver   Ahmad
rate1 Part of the drivers for the SoundMax card. If you terminate the process, the soundcard still works fine, though.   Leandro
rate1 Presario R3000 system standard installed   Sander
rate1 It's on my Toshiba Tecra too.   Ken
rate0 Is it possible this is used with the type of spyware that enables somoene to remotely listen through a computer's speakers to events happening in the room? Scary but that stuff exists- please post if you know answer- from someone being hounded/hacked by their abusive ex :( thanks :)   help me with this people please..
rate1 This is related to the soundmax driver agent, running on exp it should be running as the SYSTEM processess. As user process it may be something else.   Shadus
rate1 same audio driver on Asus K7V880  
rate3 I need this for having full sound effect at world of warcraft, that why i keep it.   Bio
rate1 Installed with SoundMax driver   Dox
rate1 sound application :)   PabloZ
rate1 This is the SoundMAX agent which detects new input of audio devices and brings up the "what did you plug in?" if you dont have it or have it disabled or dont want it, disable this service.   tsr
rate1 It's on all notebooks that has the chipset i852GM...   Ricardo Becker
rate1 Soundmax. To the guy being haounded by his ex - Put on your foil hat so the aliens can't radiate you   musicfix
rate1 HP compaq NC6000 uses it also for sound   Joost
rate1 Just sound card driver   Thomas
rate1 This process is not required and can be terminated from Services list in Windows.   BitBurn
rate1 Important driver for Sound Max software to run properelly.   Benjou
rate1 Soundmax driver   Craig
rate1 I'm also running an ASUS P4P800E board, no problems so I would agree with it being a sound Max driver :-)   Purple_Ice
rate1 SoundMax driver   pratz
rate1 Compaq presario r3000 laptop sound drivers   Spiffy
rate1 Installed with HP pavilion zv5000 too. Seems not harmfull but it takes 1.5 MB of memory   ghostnik
rate1 just a driver file for Soundmax   soundmax user
rate1 Installed by default on Toshiba satellite Pro Motherboards.   amenable
rate5 Compaq presario r3000 laptop sound drivers   Spiffypratz
rate1 Audio driver for Asus K8U-X motherboard.   kiri_9
rate1 audiodriver of Asus A7V8X-X mainboard   Prototyp3
rate5 as user , its a virus   i know everything
rate1 Is installed by default with any AC'97 / Soundmax audio interface   Teh
rate0 unnessesary sound driver agent, remove it from services   Killer
rate1 This is the soundmax driver on IBM Thinkpad T43.   dcc
rate1 Soundmax driver   Taylor
rate1 its a sound card driver   Ronan
rate5 Downloaded with Compaq Drivers - Constantly Infected Since.   Demon
rate5 I dont know why it makes a lot of connectios from my pc to others (saw it with netstat command). The internet browsers may not work fine   Felipe Forero
rate1 It's installed as a part of the SoundMax drivers also with an ASUS A7V8X-X   Reboot
rate0 compaq presario r3000 laptod sound drivers  
rate0 to musicfix and hounded ex: I was wondering the same thing. That is how I got to this page. I think my ex is somehow listening or getting into my pc remotely...please help if you know anything about this kind of stuff. please dont joke this is serious.   shadowallikatt
rate1 Soundmax audio driver :)   Lina Achjijem
rate0 to install soundmax. audio driver   shiva
rate1 One of Soundmax Driver extensions, Nothing to worry about   Rick
rate2 Motherboard Asus A7V600-X uses sound chip AD1888 (is a VIA AC97 too) and uses a Soundmax driver with SMAgent.exe   Solomon
rate4 Sound works perfectly well without it (services are not drivers), so no idea what it's supossed to do. Since SoundMax have the audacity to install it without permission or explanation, I suggest keeping it disabled.   Dave
rate1 HP/Compaq DC7100 Small Form Factor PC audio driver   Bob
rate3 not required  
rate0 anything that reports data from my computer drains it   by by
rate1 IBM Storage Manager Agent - IBM SAN Storage interface.   Mark
rate0 It's runing on my Compaq Evo N410c   Vagus

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