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Information about smagent.exe file
File: smagent.exe
Name: SoundMAX service agent component
Product: SoundMAX service agent
Manufacturer: Analog Devices, Inc.
Risk factor (Virus/Trojan/Spyware): 
"smagent.exe" is a SoundMAX service component from Analog Devices, Inc. Is part of the audio driver on a ASUS "P4C800 Deluxe"-Mainboard.
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User feedback
There were 285 user requests for that file.
34 users classify it as harmless.
2 users classify it as not so dangerous.
3 users classify it as neutral.
1 user classify it as dangerous and recommend to remove smagent.exe.
| Rating | Opinion | From |
| Soundma Service Agent component. Drivers/Programs for speakers.
| Anonymous
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| installs on most modern asus motherboards with integrated sound
link for more info
| James
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 | "smagent.exe" is a SoundMAX service component from Analog Devices, Inc. Is part of the audio driver on a ASUS "P4C800 Deluxe"-Mainboard.
| Pat Estrada
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| as above - on vaio laptops is common
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| Comes with drivers
| Carlos Averett
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| it appeared with the installation of a new ASUS motherboard. it is related to the sound drivers. can be disabled without system problems.
link for more info
| Pablo Dopico
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| i have a Sound Max sound card and the process Smagent.exe starts early in boot shorty after explorer.exe puls i see a 64k mem usage
| J Parker
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 | Believe it came w AC97 / SoundMAX sound devices. Probably to alert U of audio driver updates.
link for more info
| Rock
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| IBM NetVistas use soundMAX .
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| Also on Asus NCCH-DL
| Andy
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| It comes installed by default on Toshiba M200 series Tablets
| keshozeto
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| On compaq d530's as well ..
| moggle
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| Sound subsystem driver on many asus MB's
link for more info
| Ben!
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| SoundMAX Audio Agent
| John(xtrance)
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| Habe es vom Autostart rausgenommen. Es startet somit nicht mehr. Unterschied: Keiner. Irgend eine unsinnige Phantomdatei, welche keine Funktion hat. Wessen Taskmanager zu voll ist, kann diese Datei getrost dauerhaft löschen.
| Vollprofi
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| audio driver for Asus K8VSE deluxe motherboard, not harmful at all!
link for more info
| M. Jordan
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| SoundMax background service
| David
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| Not harmful at all. It's just for onboard audio and such.
| Dav0
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| also present on HP nc6000 laptops
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| Comes up on Compaq Evo notebooks as well
| enzuigiri
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| as everyone says, part of the soundmax applications that come with many Motherboards that use the soundmax ac97 codec
| Will
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| SoundMax Drivers
link for more info
| Nisroc
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| agent for the soundman sound system, found on ADI and Intel chipsets/motherboards
link for more info
| Karl
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