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Process name: SoundMAX service agent component
Product: SoundMAX service agent
Company: Analog Devices, Inc.
File: smagent.exe
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"smagent.exe" is a SoundMAX service component from Analog Devices, Inc. Is part of the audio driver on a ASUS "P4C800 Deluxe"-Mainboard.

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All comments about smagent.exe:
Anonymous Soundma Service Agent component. Drivers/Programs for speakers.
James installs on most modern asus motherboards with integrated sound  See also: Link
Pat Estrada "smagent.exe" is a SoundMAX service component from Analog Devices, Inc. Is part of the audio driver on a ASUS "P4C800 Deluxe"-Mainboard.
as above - on vaio laptops is common
Carlos Averett Comes with drivers
Pablo Dopico 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
J Parker 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
Rock Believe it came w AC97 / SoundMAX sound devices. Probably to alert U of audio driver updates.  See also: Link
IBM NetVistas use soundMAX .
Andy Also on Asus NCCH-DL
keshozeto It comes installed by default on Toshiba M200 series Tablets
moggle On compaq d530's as well ..
Ben! Sound subsystem driver on many asus MB's  See also: Link
John(xtrance) SoundMAX Audio Agent
Vollprofi Habe es vom Autostart rausgenommen. Es startet somit nicht mehr. Unterschied: Keiner. Irgend eine unsinnige Phantomdatei, welche keine Funktion hat. Wessen Taskmanager zu voll ist, kann diese Datei getrost dauerhaft löschen.
M. Jordan audio driver for Asus K8VSE deluxe motherboard, not harmful at all!  See also: Link
David SoundMax background service
Dav0 Not harmful at all. It's just for onboard audio and such.
also present on HP nc6000 laptops
enzuigiri Comes up on Compaq Evo notebooks as well
Will as everyone says, part of the soundmax applications that come with many Motherboards that use the soundmax ac97 codec
Nisroc SoundMax Drivers  See also: Link
Karl agent for the soundman sound system, found on ADI and Intel chipsets/motherboards  See also: Link
Ahmad nothing, just it is a siund card driver
Leandro Part of the drivers for the SoundMax card. If you terminate the process, the soundcard still works fine, though.
Sander Presario R3000 system standard installed
Ken It's on my Toshiba Tecra too.
help me with this people please.. 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 :)
Shadus 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.
same audio driver on Asus K7V880
Bio I need this for having full sound effect at world of warcraft, that why i keep it.
Dox Installed with SoundMax driver
PabloZ sound application :)
tsr 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.
Ricardo Becker It's on all notebooks that has the chipset i852GM...
musicfix Soundmax. To the guy being haounded by his ex - Put on your foil hat so the aliens can't radiate you
Joost HP compaq NC6000 uses it also for sound
Thomas Just sound card driver
Seven SoundMAX ist auch auf dem K8V SE Deluxe von ASUS.
BitBurn This process is not required and can be terminated from Services list in Windows.
Benjou Important driver for Sound Max software to run properelly.
Craig Soundmax driver
Purple_Ice I'm also running an ASUS P4P800E board, no problems so I would agree with it being a sound Max driver :-)
pratz SoundMax driver
Spiffy Compaq presario r3000 laptop sound drivers
ghostnik Installed with HP pavilion zv5000 too. Seems not harmfull but it takes 1.5 MB of memory
soundmax user just a driver file for Soundmax
amenable Installed by default on Toshiba satellite Pro Motherboards.
Spiffypratz Compaq presario r3000 laptop sound drivers
kiri_9 Audio driver for Asus K8U-X motherboard.
Prototyp3 audiodriver of Asus A7V8X-X mainboard
i know everything as user , its a virus  See also: Link
Teh Is installed by default with any AC'97 / Soundmax audio interface
Killer unnessesary sound driver agent, remove it from services
dcc This is the soundmax driver on IBM Thinkpad T43.
Taylor Soundmax driver
Ronan its a sound card driver

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