How to remove an UMonit error

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UMonit.exe file information

The process known as Gene USB Monitor or UMonit MFC Application or ChangeIcon MFC Application belongs to software Gene USB Monitor or UMonit Application or ChangeIcon Application or MediaGear USB2.0 Card Reader by General.

Description: UMonit.exe is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32. Known file sizes on Windows 7/XP are 53,248 bytes (40% of all occurrences), 200,704 bytes and 10 more variants.
UMonit.exe is not a Windows core file. Program starts upon Windows startup (see Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run). The program is not visible. The file is an unknown file in the Windows folder. UMonit.exe is able to record inputs. Therefore the technical security rating is 61% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.
There is a possibility to uninstall the associated program (Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove programs > MediaGear USB2.0 Card Reader).

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If UMonit.exe is located in a subfolder of C:\Windows, the security rating is 57% dangerous. The file size is 40,960 bytes (33% of all occurrences), 28,672 bytes and 5 more variants. The application has no file description. The program is not visible. The file is an unknown file in the Windows folder. UMonit.exe is not a Windows system file. UMonit.exe is able to record inputs.

External information from Paul Collins:

"UMonit" can run at start up. Alerts when USB device is plugged in

Important: Some malware camouflages itself as UMonit.exe, particularly when located in the c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Therefore, you should check the UMonit.exe process on your PC to see if it is a threat. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. This was one of the Top Download Picks of The Washington Post and PC World.

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User Comments

Installed by Sandisk USB card reader
jim seattle

It causes a faint but constant beeping (every second or so) in headphones/speakers. (It is inaudible in speakers unless the volume is very high.) The beeping stops when I stop umonit.exe in the task manager, but it isn't listed on the startup menu. It came on a driver CD for a Genesys Logic universal card reader, & I had to uninstall the drivers to get rid of umonit.exe. The user guide that came w/ the reader says that the installation of the driver CD's contents is not necessary for Win XP/Me/2000. I don't know about Mac.
david

Not sure what it does, but it was installed with some utility I pulled off of IOGEAR.COM for my GUH284R to give me the Icons for the card reader. It errors out often and I just opt not to let it run. I have not uninstalled it. YET.
R. Jones (further information)

Mine came with an Akasa combo card reader and USB hub.
JG Weston (further information)

Herkunft: Hama Kartenleser
ogga

Installed by drivers for Emtec "movie cube"
Richard (further information)

Installed as part of SanDisk card readers for the special drive display icons. Poorly written as it keeps causing the driver service to run RunDLL32 to call the Activate_RunDLL function in shell32.dll
Tim

It was installed with my external USB card reader. Its a utility that watches for cards to be inserted in order to change the Icon in Windows explorer.
Revenge

Disabled it and noted no effect.
Jerry_D

Not dangerous. Comes included with 3rd party USB hardward to support notifications in Windows. Causes minor drain on resources (it's a running program in background, but shows i/o and cpu usage @ 0% during normal functioning). Rating: 99% harmless.
Linda Walsh

It was pushing the processor to 100% causing lockups, upon removal perfomance was normal again.

It causes constant CPU use, messes up mouse action. Stopped the process and the computer runs better. Will probably remove it.
Magoi

It came with the Belkin Universal Media Reader. I like to see which drive (of 5) has which card in it, so for me it's useful. Doesn't cause any trouble on XP SP3
Dan Leigh

Interfered with my BH12LS35 Bluray drive; running this program caused Windows to completely lose track of the drive's existance.
jeremy

It took me 4 tries to delete umonit completely, from task manager and from the explorer button. it kept popping up. on otyher forums they say that viruses piggyback on umonit
deb (further information)

I recently built a Quad AMD system & it has been rock solid - until today. System crashed twice so finally checked “processes” and found UMonit.exe*32 running at 25% CPU. Odd my system is a 64 bit, and I have no idea how it got installed. I killed it and all’s well. I will continue to kill it after starting and if I go a few weeks with no problem I’ll try to uninstall.
Richard_S

I got it and it slowed my computer down. I searched for it and found it in two folders c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\temp\common. I went to add or remove programs and couldn't see it. I renamed them and moved them to desktop and rebooted. It's not able to run now. I deleted them.
Jeannie R

Drove services.exe PnP/EvtLog instance 50% CPU on battery power, killing umonit.exe and removing from startup solved problem

obviously it seems to do different things for different people. On my (Dell 8250, 80g, 160g, 500g, 2.4ghz., 1.2Ram, Nvidia 512 ram) it would constantly send my processor to 100% on ANY application request.
Dean

Summary: Average user rating of UMonit.exe: based on 26 votes with 19 reviews.

4 users think UMonit.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 1 user think it's probably harmless. 14 users think it's neither essential nor dangerous. 5 users suspect danger. 2 users think UMonit.exe is dangerous and recommend removing it. 4 users doesn't grade UMonit.exe ("not sure about it").

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