What is smc.exe? Is smc.exe spyware or a virus?
How to fix smc.exe related problems?
1. Run Security Task Manager to check your smc process
2. Run a Windows Repair Tool to fix smc.exe related PC problems
3. Run an Antivirus to find persistent malware
Process name: Sygate Agent Firewall
Product: SygateŽ Security Agent and Personal Firewall
Company: Sygate Technologies, Inc.
File: smc.exe
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"smc.exe" is a component of Sygate Secure Enterprise that implements firewall protection. Leave it running if you are using this application to protect your PC.
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Users Opinions
Average user rating of smc.exe: based on 210 votes. Read also the 173 reviews.
158 users ask for this file. 163 users rated it as not dangerous. 6 users rated it as not so dangerous. 20 users rated it as neutral. 10 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 11 users rated it as dangerous. 15 users didn't rate it ("don't know").
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| it is a firewall pippo | |
| This is the Sygate Firewall program running. Clint | |
| Should not be removed, provides protection for your computer.They have a free version at the link below. See also: Link Howard G. | |
| it is one of the running processes listed under Windows Task Manager, and is the Sygate firewall program See also: Link Kim | |
| It is the sygate firewall, you won't find much better Bluescreen | |
| Part of Sygate Personal firewall Pro DanBhoy | |
| Sygate Personal Firewall running in background MTB | |
| Sygate Firewall S!Ri | |
| good firewall opportunist | |
| It is a part of Sygate Personal Firewall balander | |
| The Sygate Firewall engine. A very good firewall-program! See also: Link Greew | |
| It is the Sygate Firewall running in the background Jesper K sevel | |
| it is great at protecting your computer - leave it | |
| Part of the excellent Sygate Firwall program rob | |
| Sygate Personal Firewall. Don't remove it. andrysh | |
| One of the best firewalls John | |
| Sygate Firewall process ISK | |
| Sygate Personal Firewall See also: Link ... | |
| Sysgate Personal Firewall See also: Link r3l!c | |
| Sygate Firewall OuluRock | |
| Apparently part of sygate personal fwall Kheldysh | |
| Part of Sygate firewall. Must have! Sygate 5.6 was a resource hog. Went back to Sygate 5.5, and love it! Download here- See also: Link Scott Sutherland | |
| This firewall rulezzz them all ,see the link and scan with and without it See also: Link Haxnoob | |
| Sygate Firewall, uses a lot of CPU when lots of data going through p.i.m.p. | |
| firewall it is the best ever and so esay to use love it See also: Link Sygate Firewall | |
| Part of Sygate Firewall KK | |
| Never installed Sygate but it is running? Uses about 20mb ram... Pabu | |
| sygate firewall. Should be perfectly safe | |
| Don't revove it. It is great at protecting your computer Lucho | |
| it's a firewall process.. and a firewall that's freeware! =) Meister | |
| The resident part of Sygate Personal Firewall Sonic | |
| sygate firewall | |
| SMC nor responding errors when also running Norton System works. Machine locks up and needs reboot Paw | |
| its sygate Bill Clinton | |
| Sygate Firewall but uses up heaps of my CPU for some reason Freddy | |
| its a awsome firewall! look in to bittorrent its a good download site check it out u can find sygate firewalls there | |
| Sygate personal firewall not to be removed Chris G Temecula | |
| Sygate FIREWALL...said, the pro version is easily obtained for free peeps | |
| Sygate Firewall File Very Useful, but with a lot of downloading, can (not always) run up about 92% of computer at times (512MB RAM) Generic User | |
| thank goodness for sygate - much better than za imo | |
| Good firewall. Uses a lot of cpu though. Jhq | |
| its sygate personal firewall, great program aswell | |
| Sygate is working for your safe. gio | |
| sygate firewall , works excellent vigi | |
| It's part of Sygate Personal Firewall (Pro). See also: Link Michael | |
| Sygate Personal Firewall See also: Link Yogi Bear | |
| Sygate firewall's "Security Management Console" Must have but is greedy for memory resources. M Spooner | |
| process of a good firewall See also: Link Mirrakor | |
| Excellent Firewall Program. | |
| Sygate Executable that contantly fails with WIN 98 Mark | |
| However at times it can consume up to 95% of the cpu cycles on startup. | |
| It is a security floor in sygate firewalls, it is a process that is often hijacked #Jared Somerville | |
| Sygate firewall process (as you may have guessed!), usualy takes less then 20 cpu, but sometimes goes up to 90's... just restart and cpu usage should go back to normal (dont ask why) Geeza | |
| Uses 100 % CPU sometimes Alex-sasha | |
| Sygate Personnal Firewall Process max | |
| sygate personal firewall works perfectly tolga | |
| Sygate Firewall claudia1220 | |
| Sygate Personal Firewall Looping | |
| V5.6 uses lots of CPU, up to 90%, though there is no traffic See also: Link Soundman_de | |
| Its A sygate Firewall,i a using it since 1 year and i never had problems with virus,spyware and all.... Anupam Gupta | |
| laggs the computer Kira | |
| If you check it with Security Task Manager, it says it listens on port 1026, 1027 uhg | |
| Firewall | |
| it's syagate personal firewall See also: Link xdevil | |
| Sygate backround operation. Errors on loading in Win XP means it is constantly closing down. Eats CPU time. cflat | |
| This is Sygate Firewall process, and if you get speed over 1mbit it takes 50-95% of the cpu FrontSlash | |
| probably greatest firewall, will see what they'll do with new series (5.6+ :) See also: Link Ozy` | |
| This is Sygate Personal Firewall, nothing else, don't panic! aladin | |
| Can also be "Multimedia PC by Nortel Networks" See also: Link Dracogen | |
| Can also be "Multimedia PC by Nortel Networks" See also: Link Dracogen | |
| seagate firewall | |
| Firewall | |
| 5.5 uses up to 90-95% of cpu, when downloading @ speeds over 2000kb/s. Besides cpu usage, a very goog fw. dylan hunt | |
| It says it listens on ports 3043, 3059 and it is able to record keyboard inputs!!!!!!!!!!!! ??? | |
| Sygate firewall, should i rather use older version/other firewall with p133 on W98se ? See also: Link Gman | |
| It's part of the Sygate Firewall... but it causes crashes when turning down Windows alex9110 | |
| Part of Sygate Firewall, can use up to 98% of CPU and 60,000Kb of Memory Sean | |
| sygate - no problems with it in the past 2 years | |
| Firewall Platinum Dreher | |
| Sygate firewall Mjk | |
| Be carful, people hacking into the firewall gateway ZZTOP | |
| owned by norton now jim | |
| Seagate Firewall See also: Link BeezleBug | |
| sygate firewall See also: Link luk | |
| Firewall - Installed it and forgot about it until I was testing remote control s/ware. Wouldn't work. smc had stealthed all the ports to external access! Chrisxx | |
| nice firewall... but sometimes lagged... but it is OK bcoz it protect my pc! jeppy | |
| Sygate Firewall americankat | |
| Excelent Firewall (it´s Free and fights against Windows Threats) What More we can need !!! See also: Link Diego Crosinelli | |
| Sygate firewall - bought out by Symantec - personal not supported See also: Link Mike Marion | |
| firewall sehr gut jo | |
| sygate firewall harmlos | |
| Sygate Firewall. Can eat 100% CPU. If it crashes it mimics MSBlaster by shutting down PC. But safe otherwise | |
| Sygate firewall | |
| sygate firewall no longer on my toolbar, an error had occured and i have no more protection snoozy | |
| firewall hein | |
| Sygate, firewall it is your friend Hugh Betcha | |
| great firewall, but a TOTAL memoryhog when downloading via bittorrent - high speed downloads, makes sygate hog 99% CPU sygate out-phaser | |
| good firewall does eat a lot of cpu billybob | |
| Firewall, but uses lot of CPU damn :-) Igors Aivars | |
| Sygate Personal Firewall Contropolis | |
| It is a service exe of Sygate Firewall. It shouldn't be terminated. Probably you can't do it anyway. ilter | |
| restarts my computer | |
| Sygate Firewall Rohit | |
| Sygate Personal Firewall - can crash computer taking 98-100% cpu | |
| It's Sygate Personal Firewall executable daimonion666 | |
| sygate firewall - dont worry See also: Link | |
| SPF 5.5, it uses 100% cpu when there is a download with a lan connection... i think it's a bug ^^ Hitsu | |
| Arquivo residente Sygate Firewall ElMatador | |
| Sygate. If you remove from startup list, it will still run as a system service (unable to delete without hijack this or safe mode) and blocks ALL internet connections.. had to do a system restore after removing it to restore my internet connection.. be careful with it.. | |
| Excellent Firewall, easy to use. The Perfect replace for XP SP2 internal firewall Kio | |
| It is part of the Sygate Firewall program. While I have been told by friends with post-secondary training in computers that I have nothing to be worried about, I also sometimes find that when my computer freezes and I go CTRL+ALT+DEL to see which of my running programs are bugging, I will often times see "SMC.exe [not responding]". I don't know if this means that my copy of SMC.exe needs replacing, or if it just means that it's not working at the moment... Talis | |
| It belongs to Sygate Firewall. Don't remove. L.U.H.A | |
| Main Sygate file Nicole | |
| ports can be blocked independently, any program laggs the computer, just know how to config. it.. Frank Smith | |
| it's sygate personal firewall exe file... cyrus | |
| Sygate, but can take 100%CPU... Restart the computer Apax | |
| Sygate Personal Firewall | |
| It is Sygate Personal Firewall Sunil.H.V. | |
| this stupid process is taking almost 100% of my cpu time and I had to have a manual reboot to stop this thing; now it's coming back again! By definition, this is definitely a virus! thx | |
| Sygate Personal Firewall See also: Link X-Ray.Ger | |
| Sygate firewall use very little cpu but too much mem muffin GA | |
| sehr gute firewall otto | |
| Sygate personal firewall, a good but CPU-consuming firewall while downloading See also: Link Daniel | |
| Sygate Agent. On many systems I see it pegging the CPU and turning the system into a brick. Manny Borges | |
| It's good firewall Lazy Lone Lion | |
| its not dangerous See also: Link hans | |
| A part of Sygate Personal Firewall core. If SPF is not installed, better check your machine for worms -) MuToGeN | |
| Located in C:\Documents and Settings\ username ; Registry entry HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Run listed as "Microsoft System Core" Paola | |
| i have installed sygate after i was attacked by trojan through internet as a precaution, but just after installation i started getting Application error from smc.exe. It was just like i got during my system was a patient of trojan spywares. so in my view its something suspicious as a burden for the system. cybersupam | |
| Sygate Firewall. Not dangerous. Runs as system service. EVERYONE needs a firewall like this!!! Trammel | |
| It eats 100% cpu | |
| it is an important component of Symantec Endpoint Protection See also: Link Daymon | |
| Uses 30% of my cpu and I can't turn the crap off! People will hate me for saying this, but Windows Firewall does the job just as well as uses much less CPU. Sam Illingworth | |
| Its an EXCELLENT FIREWALL but it uses lot of CPU if you download 10+ torrents at same time... test0r | |
| also part of Symantec Endpoint 11 | |
| Delays my internet logon by about a minute. Never knew what it was but, like Talis, it's often in Task Manager saying "not responding". I've been clicking "end task" whcih I now presume ends my firewall. If so, I haven't noticed any change in performance. Didn't realise it's probably slowing down my whole (Windows 95) system and causing most my crashes, especially on closing down. steve | |
| Sygate security firewall, alters traffic, saps resources, pointless WVR | |
| Good firewall, However uses a lot of cpu. Dr J. | |
| Sygate firewall Dr Jay | |
| It's great firewall,I feel secured against hackers scanning my ports, any attempt to connect to my pc. So 100 % traffic control incoming and outcoming. Nadir | |
| Belongs to sygate personal firewall but errors sometimes and askes for 100% CPU, then you'll need a restart See also: Link Hans | |
| hogs too much cpu resources for my liking brainlicker | |
| It's Prt of the Sygate Firewall imbeded in the Symantec Endpoint Security Dmit | |
| File from Symantec Endpoint antivirus/spyware/worm Protection. Can sometimes hog I/O or CPU. Rambo | |
| great firewall meinie | |
| Ygate Firewall Gast | |
| Also part of Symantec Antivirus Trish | |
| Part of Stmantec Enpoint Protection now Dad | |
| Does very many in/out writes. Part of the lag problem. There were 2500 in/out writes in 5 minutes on my computer. May be a great firewall but makes your machine run like dirt. If that is good more power to you. Jeff Hale | |
| SHOWING ERROR ABOUT SMC.EXE APPLICATION ERROR PRATIK | |
| Sygate Firefall Process Typhoon | |
| Excellent Firewall Master | |
| It's also common if you have Symantec Endpoint Security installed and running (or maybe similar Norton peoduct) AnGus | |
| The version I have seen is in Windows\sysWOW64\smc.exe I believe it is a trojan loaded onto the WoW game, current as of Aug 09. See also: Link Tarq57 | |
| it take up over (90 percent cpu hat | |
| part of symantec antivirus, it can be laggy just after system boot/reboot, no chance to hijack or infect this if used in Symantec antivirus, other part of symantec antivirus will block those attacks G. v. Munster | |
| It has completely jacked up my computer using 98% of the available CPU the entire morning. Two thumbs down !! Ocho the Clown | |
| Also never installed Sygate but smc.exe is running, using a large amount of resources enkl4ve | |
| a super filewall - wish I had it sooner Steve | |
| Sygate is much easier to use and is more effective than Zonealarm and should be #1 choice. Carpenter | |
| 10,000+ resources on average for Sygate firewall Bobby P | |
| \Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\Smc.exe goes along with SmcGui.exe so it can also be a part of Symantec antivirus Jan B | |
| excellent firewall, blocks everything you want (Sygate Firewall) Cradle | |
| It is not SYGATE on my machine. It is part of the Symantec managed virusscanner. Eddy Boogoo | |
| Symantec Endpoint Protection BuR | |
| Causes 500-4000 page faults / second in my system slowing everything badly! Janne | |
| Symantec Endpoint. Immediately after my company installed on my pc performance took a nose dive. Typically runs at 50% of cpu. Apparently has been a problem for at least 3.5 years. Joseph | |
| Symantec Endpoint Protection TieFighter | |
| Sygate Firefall Process. It will take almost 100% of cpu time Suresh | |
| During system boot with sygate installed it can take as much as 98% CPU usage. When it has completed it's tasks and sygate is fully loaded it calmes down to very little CPU usage. Small price to pay for good firewall protection. Badeye | |
| Sygate, the best free firewall ever. See also: Link tom | |
| This is no longer Sygate as they were bought by Symantec many years ago. This is now part of the framework of Endpoint Protection. Jim | |
| Sysmantec uses it Cameron | |
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