How to remove shellmon error

shellmon.exe file information

The process setupdb or waolmon belongs to the software America Online or AOL or shellmon.exe or DVD Solution or Rocket Mania Deluxe or UnInstall Envy24 Family Audio or Roxio Easy Media Creator or Spyware Terminator or Mozilla Firefox or Adobe Integrated Runtime or ATI MCE Transcode by America Online, Inc (www.aol.com) or AOL, LLC.

Description: shellmon.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files" or sometimes in a subfolder of C:\ or in a subfolder of the "My Files" folder - e.g. C:\Program Files\America Online 9.0\. Known file sizes on Windows XP are 54872 bytes (52% of all occurrence), 38512 bytes, 39000 bytes, 41050 bytes, 54832 bytes, 32844 bytes, 32841 bytes, 54624 bytes, 41049 bytes.
The program is not visible. It is not a Windows core file. The file is a Verisign signed file. shellmon.exe is certified by a trustworthy company. shellmon.exe is able to hide itself, monitor applications. Therefore the technical security rating is 26% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.

Important: Some malware camouflage themselves as shellmon.exe, particularly if they are located in c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Thus check the shellmon.exe process on your pc whether it is pest. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. It is one of the Top Download Picks of 2005 of The Washington Post and PC World.

Links: shellmon.exe, shellmon.exe

shellmon.exe Can be shutoff if you first turnoff the aolware.exe process, then shutoff shellmon.exe process. Otherwise shellmon will keep returning to the process list immediately even if you try to shut off the entire process tree.
  ca Collister  

When I go to shut down, it says ending shellmon.exe?
   

when my computer is slow loading sites, it is the culprit
  hollykay  

program\americ~2.0\shellmon.exe
   

All I know is when I turned my computer off the other night, there was absolutely no sign of any program running, but before windows would shut down it said "ending program shellmon" then after it ended that, my computer shut down as I wanted it to. So I don't know if that's a bad thing or not? Can anyone tell me?
  Young Ma  

It always opens on my computer and I can't get rid of it.
  Sara Villaro  

emerges or pops up in rectangle about once every 12 startups with HP product
  Nannette   (further information)

If infected can create havok by opening webpages on its own.
  Casey McCune  

part of AOL
  DC the MCSE  

shellmon.exe is an application from AOL which belongs to the Eolithic Task. It is installed with AOL version 8 and later. This program is a non-essential process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.
   

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