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. I decided to hit up the Riot Games forums to see if pmb.exe was linked to LoL in any way. 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. 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. The Flying Developer Dislikes Pando Media Booster

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