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What is slingagentservice.exe? Sling Player?

Vendor:      Sling Media
Product:     Slingbox
Vendor Website:      http://www.slingmedia.com/
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data
Process is Bad PC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is bad.
Process is questionablePC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that the safety of this process is questionable.
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Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

PC Matic Analysis

Purpose: SlingAgentService.exe is a small Windows service that manages the SlingPlayer 2.0 for Windows software update feature. The program runs in the background. When you exit SlingPlayer, you will see SlingAgentService.exe continue to run as it continues downloads and and listens for new software updates. If you decide that you do not want this service running, it can be set to manual startup by typing services.msc in your system's run box and changing the startup type to manual.

slingagentservice.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.


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slingagentservice.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
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slingagentservice.exe Technical Information

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.04%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 3 MB

MD5 Hash Analysis

Program Name MD5 Count
slingagentservice.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xe15176399af40b56ac09a823708b85d7 4/10/2018 11:19:00 PM Unknown Unknown Sling Player 91 KB
2 Status 0x0973bd0931bf4d0dfb1885bd464e9766 11/30/2016 7:52:00 PM Unknown Unknown Sling Player 91 KB
3 Status 0xafb0e9c3f02275a0e46436798143dfd7 9/23/2015 8:34:00 PM Unknown Unknown Sling Player 91 KB
4 Status 0xe4c52bedd357c68a91b500959cec9f5e 9/4/2011 4:14:00 PM Unknown Unknown Sling Player 91 KB
5 Status 0x2f31122a93bc3bb706c65a0919713bd9 7/24/2011 9:04:00 PM Unknown Unknown Sling Player 91 KB
6 Status 0xcba282ffe33fc60d270226bf004f6117 4/5/2011 1:25:00 AM Unknown Unknown Sling Player 86 KB
7 Status 0x00b86acd9d08217df9329fd87a377c25 12/30/2009 4:11:00 AM Unknown Unknown Sling Player 91 KB
8 Status 0xd14ae9a2369f621424c9d9260a1c4c0d 9/15/2009 4:40:00 PM Unknown Unknown Sling Player 91 KB
9 Status 0x8049f8e5239b8e74074c8b9ffed1691f 6/23/2009 1:40:00 PM Unknown Unknown Sling Player 91 KB
10 Status 0x438c5252d3f609c46222e2e9202984d4 12/11/2008 8:28:00 PM Unknown Unknown Sling Player 91 KB


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