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Process name: StarWind iSCSI Target Alcohol Edition

Product: StarWind or Alcohol (version 120%, 52%) or StarWind iSCSI Service or StarWind iSCSI Target (Alcohol Edition) or Project64 or My Book Device Driver or Adobe Illustrator (version CS2) or Nero 7 Premium

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Company: Rocket Division Software (www.starwindsoftware.com)

File: StarWindService.exe


Implements the StarWind service for the Alcohol Software CD burning and backup program Alcohol 120%. The service provides network drive sharing capabilities to the product. It may not be necessary if not mounting network drives, but in general it is likely better to keep this running if you use Alcohol 120% than to disable it.http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/starwindservice.exe.html 

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Users Opinions

Average user rating of StarWindService.exe: 4 based on 111 votes. Read also the 85 reviews.

4208 users ask for this file. 64 users rated it as not dangerous. 16 users rated it as not so dangerous. 20 users rated it as neutral. 8 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 3 users rated it as dangerous. 7 users didn't rate it ("don't know").


All comments about StarWindService.exe:
rate1 Installed with Alcohol 120%. Shouldn't be dangerous.   Matt
rate1 it mounts image files - not harmful at all   ben meyer
rate3 It is part of Alcohol 120%  
rate3 A Part of Alcohol 120%   King
rate3 Alcohol 120% (Virtual CD)  See also: Link   John Nightingale
rate1 StarWindService.exe is a process which belongs to Alcohol 120% and provides network drive sharing capabilities to this product. This program is non-essential process to the running of the system, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.  See also: Link   phantom
rate1 StarWindService.exe is a process which belongs to Alcohol 120% and provides network drive sharing capabilities to this product. This program is non-essential process to the running of the system, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.   elliB
rate1 maybe alcohol virtual driver   goemon
rate1 Part of Alcohol 120%   KnightKiller
rate1 Used by Alcohol 120%. Doesn't need to run, but doesn't hurt to leave it.   xI
rate1 alcohol 120%   sean
rate1 belongs to Alcohol 120%; provides network drive sharing capabilities to this product;  See also: Link   Daisuke
rate1 It belongs to Alcohol 120% and provides network drive sharing capabilities to this product.   Chris James
rate1 Is a process of Alcohol 120%   porkerias
rate0 it is part of alcohol 120% but this process is running even with alcohol closed!so who knows what it is doing  See also: Link   Makaveli
rate1 It is an Alcohol 120% process that allows network drive sharing capabilities   Dank
rate2 It's a part of Alcohol Soft  
rate1 alcohol 120% program add.   peter
rate1 StarWindService.exe is a process which belongs to Alcohol 120% and provides network drive sharing capabilities to this product. This program is non-essential process to the running of the system, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.   Richard
rate3 Running Process of Alcohol   Redbird
rate1 Alcohol 120%  See also: Link   Cyrius
rate1 StarWindService is a process of Alcohol 120%, it is not a threat to windows   Matt
rate1 part of alcohol software, I think only of newer versions   Peter
rate1 It is a part of Alcohol120% Emulation Software. I think you can close the process without problems.   mykey
rate1 It is used by alcohol soft for network drive sharing  
rate1 Program that emulates CD-ROM drive to use some software without CD. This file is it's module to emulator works.   Oleg Sokolovskiy
rate2 This the process for the alcohol 120% virtual Drive, It is hatmless, but if you think its causing problems, check the image it had loaded.  
rate3 Alcohol 120% Service   Jean Michel Jarre
rate4 Appears to have effect on my Radeon X700 GPU, responsible I suspect for performance issues in gameplay   Christian Cawley, IT Analyst & Freelance Writer
rate1 starwind belongs to burnung applications (here: alcohol). i don't know exactly but i think it has to do with the drive emulation (imagedrive)   ro
rate1 The task manager file for Alcohol 120% program you probably downloaded yourself.  See also: Link   PestVolk
rate3 part of alcohol 120% program, not sure...   chaos
rate1 Alcohol 120% Virtual Drive mounting of image files   Stefano
rate1 It's essential for the functionality of the virtual drives of Alcohol 120% and should not be terminated. If causing troubles reinstall or terminate Alcohol's virtual drives solution.  See also: Link   Jan
rate2 Its a tool to mount SCSI devices for the use with Alcohol 120 %   Mugl
rate1 As everyone has said, not so essential part of alc120%   mr.shadow
rate1 Is used by Alcohol 120%. This application allows Alcohol 120% to read emulations, virtual CD or DVD drives, or network drives. This process is not required except by Alcohol 120% for virtual drives.   Kiznik
rate3 Since all I know is that it goes with alcohol I can't say it without feeling misleading that it is or is not dangerous.   Dem. Sen. John Kerry
rate3 this destroys system files on computers owned by gay people.   stan cook
rate2 Part of Alcohol Software - not dangerous   JB
rate5 I believe someone setup an ftp server on my computer using this program.   zapato the annoyed
rate0 Belongs to Alcohol 120%   Alex
rate2 Alchohol 120% installation causes this to appear, harmless, but this and the gearsec thing have been showing up at bad times. I don't need to dedicate memory to them if I'm not using the software!!! Terminate them, but may cause problems.   hydra
rate1 120% you can remove it doesnt cause any harm   billy bob
rate5 if computer crashes, when i reboot and attempt to use any program involving the internet (AIM, firefox, etc) , it will not open or start (although it is listed in windows task manager) until I close starwindservice.exe through task manager, at which time instantly all programs tryin to acces the internet appear and work immediently after.   Ryan
rate1 Star wind blows goats. I have proof.   Spanku Verymuch
rate1 I can only agree with Matt it belongs to Alcohol 120% and my Anti Virus software didn't detect any Viruses (sames with my firewall) so I this process is not dangerous.......I mean momentally   Nobody
rate1 part of "Alcohol 120%"   AliBaBa
rate1 alcohol 120%, very safe   DaveMontreal
rate1 Comes with Alcohol, can be terminated if Alcohol is not being used, be sure that it runs before opening Alcohol.   Lyrae
rate3 StarWindService.exe is a process which belongs to Alcohol 120% and provides network drive sharing capabilities to this product. May Hang On Reboot  
rate3 It's part of alcohol 120%. It's needed for a performance of emulation from copyprotection.  See also: Link   -dura-
rate3 StarWindService.exe is a process belonging to Alcohol 120% - In breaf, if you don't want or need any mounted DVD/CDROM drives, it does not need to be running and can be turned off within Alcohol 120%   Poyda
rate1 Starport iSCSI service installed with Alcohol 120%. Unless you are using iSCSI to network mount drives you can safely disable the service.  See also: Link   dmaurer
rate1 Belongs to Alcohol 120%. Zero security risk.   ThatTechGuy
rate1 virtual driver for alcohol 120% and part of alcohol 120%   Scharper
rate3 it's trying to act as a server so I've blocked it :)  
rate1 it an alcoholic awsome prog   covsoldier
rate2 alcohol 120 service  
rate1 alcohol 120!   nsane
rate2 used by alcohol 120%   amokk
rate1 Alcohol 120% Service, tested on secure workstation without network. Absolutly harmless   BitHit
rate3 The related DLL contains program copy protection and it calls home in part to notify you of updates, but seems fine to terminate... and it is possible then to mask a trojan   Praxis
rate3 It does seem to be part of Alcohol but why does it want to access the internet even when Alcohol isn't being used?   Graham
rate0 svchost.exe.exe  
rate4 Belongs to Alcohol 120%, BUT downloads about 400kb every 5-7 days. WTF?   xRay
rate1 This process waits for the user to go to sleep, then attempts to climb out of you computer to raid your fridge. Part of Alcohol 120% installation, not harmful   Stink-o-fun
rate4 it connects to the internet, not jet sure what it does, it should not connect to the internet   RJBoer
rate4 I terminate this crap: del exe, clean registry   kandar
rate3 A part of Alcohol 120%  See also: Link   Cpututor
rate1 alcohol 120% service   GoblinKing
rate4 The Windows Firewall has detected an application listening for incoming traffic. Name: - Path: D:\Program Files\Alcohol Soft\Alcohol 120\StarWind\StarWindService.exe Process identifier: 376 User account: SYSTEM User domain: NT AUTHORITY Service: Yes RPC server: No IP version: IPv4 IP protocol: TCP Port number: 3261 Allowed: No User notified: No   authmx
rate1 Comes with Alcohol 120%  See also: Link   LinkTree
rate1 alcolhol 120% file  See also: Link   Toef
rate0 the alcohol 120% software is pretty good, but it has the starwind service, after i uninstalled everything it is still running,someone could be using servers or some s!!t.   DZUP
rate1 if you installed alcohol 120 not dangerous. if you dont probably somethin that hooks up the name.   sattis
rate4 It kills my UMTS internet connection !   carcasshead
rate0 Check the log files in starwind files. I see server connections, control port access attempts. Seems fishy.   jessie
rate3 Its a part of Alcohol!!! i searched my pc , and he found it at the alcohol files   anarchist
rate1 part of alchol 120% which let to mount images via network   brokenhills
rate3 Alcohol 120% process. Periotically checks for updates now and again. If you are leary about it running in the background communicating to the internet, you could restrict it's access via Firewall.   IT Tech Guy
rate2 Starwindservice.exe belongs to iSCSI-Drivers eg. Trekstor. It is used to mount network drives.   Alex
rate0 There is now a new file called StarWindServiceAE.exe located in Root:\Program Files\Alcohol Soft\Alcohol 120\StarWind\Star\WindserviceAE.exe and is again associated with Alcohol120 full download edition The AE varient is not yet listed on file.net   Argonath
rate3 application is running, so u cant delete it. Open task (ctrl+alt+dlt) processes choose "all processes from all users" find "starwind" and END PROCESS open C: program files delete "alcohol"   angel
rate2 evidently also runs with alcohol 52% services.msc enables network access to local burners via iSCSI protocol gonna change it from auto to manual or disabled   Denzi

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