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Process name: SoundMAX service agent component
Product: SoundMAX service agent
Company: Analog Devices, Inc.
File: smagent.exe
Security Rating:
"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.
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| All comments about smagent.exe: | |
|---|---|
| Soundma Service Agent component. Drivers/Programs for speakers. Anonymous | |
| installs on most modern asus motherboards with integrated sound See also: Link James | |
| "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 | |
| as above - on vaio laptops is common | |
| Comes with drivers Carlos Averett | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Believe it came w AC97 / SoundMAX sound devices. Probably to alert U of audio driver updates. See also: Link Rock | |
| IBM NetVistas use soundMAX . | |
| Also on Asus NCCH-DL Andy | |
| It comes installed by default on Toshiba M200 series Tablets keshozeto | |
| On compaq d530's as well .. moggle | |
| Sound subsystem driver on many asus MB's See also: Link Ben! | |
| SoundMAX Audio Agent John(xtrance) | |
| audio driver for Asus K8VSE deluxe motherboard, not harmful at all! See also: Link M. Jordan | |
| SoundMax background service David | |
| Not harmful at all. It's just for onboard audio and such. Dav0 | |
| also present on HP nc6000 laptops | |
| Comes up on Compaq Evo notebooks as well enzuigiri | |
| as everyone says, part of the soundmax applications that come with many Motherboards that use the soundmax ac97 codec Will | |
| SoundMax Drivers See also: Link Nisroc | |
| agent for the soundman sound system, found on ADI and Intel chipsets/motherboards See also: Link Karl | |
| nothing, just it is a siund card driver Ahmad | |
| Part of the drivers for the SoundMax card. If you terminate the process, the soundcard still works fine, though. Leandro | |
| Presario R3000 system standard installed Sander | |
| It's on my Toshiba Tecra too. Ken | |
| 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.. | |
| 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 | |
| same audio driver on Asus K7V880 | |
| I need this for having full sound effect at world of warcraft, that why i keep it. Bio | |
| Installed with SoundMax driver Dox | |
| sound application :) PabloZ | |
| 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 | |
| It's on all notebooks that has the chipset i852GM... Ricardo Becker | |
| Soundmax. To the guy being haounded by his ex - Put on your foil hat so the aliens can't radiate you musicfix | |
| HP compaq NC6000 uses it also for sound Joost | |
| Just sound card driver Thomas | |
| This process is not required and can be terminated from Services list in Windows. BitBurn | |
| Important driver for Sound Max software to run properelly. Benjou | |
| Soundmax driver Craig | |
| I'm also running an ASUS P4P800E board, no problems so I would agree with it being a sound Max driver :-) Purple_Ice | |
| SoundMax driver pratz | |
| Compaq presario r3000 laptop sound drivers Spiffy | |
| Installed with HP pavilion zv5000 too. Seems not harmfull but it takes 1.5 MB of memory ghostnik | |
| just a driver file for Soundmax soundmax user | |
| Installed by default on Toshiba satellite Pro Motherboards. amenable | |
| Compaq presario r3000 laptop sound drivers Spiffypratz | |
| Audio driver for Asus K8U-X motherboard. kiri_9 | |
| audiodriver of Asus A7V8X-X mainboard Prototyp3 | |
| as user , its a virus i know everything | |
| Is installed by default with any AC'97 / Soundmax audio interface Teh | |
| unnessesary sound driver agent, remove it from services Killer | |
| This is the soundmax driver on IBM Thinkpad T43. dcc | |
| Soundmax driver Taylor | |
| its a sound card driver Ronan | |
| Downloaded with Compaq Drivers - Constantly Infected Since. Demon | |
| 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 | |
| It's installed as a part of the SoundMax drivers also with an ASUS A7V8X-X Reboot | |
| compaq presario r3000 laptod sound drivers | |
| 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 | |
| Soundmax audio driver :) Lina Achjijem | |
| to install soundmax. audio driver shiva | |
| One of Soundmax Driver extensions, Nothing to worry about Rick | |
| Motherboard Asus A7V600-X uses sound chip AD1888 (is a VIA AC97 too) and uses a Soundmax driver with SMAgent.exe Solomon | |
| 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 | |
| HP/Compaq DC7100 Small Form Factor PC audio driver Bob | |
| not required | |
| anything that reports data from my computer drains it by by | |
| IBM Storage Manager Agent - IBM SAN Storage interface. Mark | |
| It's runing on my Compaq Evo N410c Vagus | |
| Sound driver | |
| Soundmax... if your antiv. software finds it dangerous then you should update it, I mean both of them. Én | |
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