Pando (and to a lesser extent, Riot Games), I am disappointed in you. But with bandwidth caps in place on most internet connections a program like this is basically spending your money for you without your knowledge. That sounds a lot like malware to me.įortunately uninstalling Pando is straightforward once you know it’s there and doesn’t cause programs that use it to break once it’s gone. It doesn’t have a task tray icon so unless you’re paying attention you’ll have no idea it’s running. It’s usually auto-installed along with whatever game you’re installing. By default it’s set to run on start up and has no cap on the upload speed it uses. The trouble is, Pando seems consistently shady in the way it is installed and configured. Pando Media Booster is a tool that facilitates this. This makes a lot of sense from a cost-saving perspective, and I’m all for it.
It seems that the trend amongst many free-to-play games (including LoL) is to supplement their direct download sources with peer-to-peer services for distributing the game client. If this occurs, begin by checking with the Pando website for. I decided to hit up the Riot Games forums to see if pmb.exe was linked to LoL in any way. In some cases with Studio 16 download installations Pando Media Booster may fail to install. That time I had been trying APB: Reloaded. I’d seen it before, pulling the same trick. Perfmon has a handy context menu feature that allows you to search the net for a process name, so I did that and found that the process was a program called Pando Media Booster. Throwing open performance monitor, I saw a process called pmb.exe. The Pando Media Booster is a tiny (2MB) UI-less client that enables you to cost effectively stream full-screen HD video by leveraging your viewers collective. Whaa? I don’t remember telling anything to upload large amounts of data. My network monitor gadget was showing an ongoing upload of about 1Mbit. But that’s not what this post is about.Ī couple of days after I installed the game, I noticed something strange. I’ve been playing League of Legends over the last month or so, and I rather like it. TCP ports use the Transmission Control Protocol, the most commonly used. The Flying Developer Dislikes Pando Media Booster 56574, tcp,udp, pando networks, port used by Pando Media Booster (pmb.exe).