Monday, September 5, 2011

"pando media booster" - botnet

After installing various freeware programs, I found that one of them installed and required "pando media booster". It seems some games use this to download files for updates/installation. After catching it bloody-handed with wasting some of my internet bandwidth, I did some research on it. According to it's own website, it is is  "an UI-less client that enables you to cost effectively stream full-screen HD video by leveraging your viewer's collective spare bandwidth"...

So, basicly what it does is streaming someones videos for someone, whitout your consent. This is not toleratable, And if you have Pando media booster you should uninstall it, or atleast block it from the internet with  your firewall.