My computer tends to run really slow and when I check the CPU usage using CRTL+ALT+DEL it brings up the Task Manager which says I have 100% CPU usage due to cmdagent.exe.? What is this and how do I get rid of it?? I?m scared to stop the process because I?m not sure if that will crash my system.? Thanks for the help
To start, you did the right thing by investigating the problem and identifying it as cmdagent.exe in your task manager, and you were even more cautious by not removing it as you were unsure of the responsibilities of this process.? Congratulations on taking the first step to becoming a geek detective (I know it sounds exciting)!? Cmdagent.exe is a safe process; it is not malware, and is a system protection process that is used for providing a firewall.? It is known to sometime catch up on itself and in my opinion, I think it can be done away with.? Try these steps to get back up and running without having the cmdagent.exe process use up your system resources!
Cmdagent.exe is a process for the Comodo Firewall.? I suggest we remove it from your system and download the latest version or use a different firewall.
Download the latest version from Comodo Firewall or we can activate the Windows Firewall by a quick search in your Network Security options.? After you have chose either option, remove the internet connection running into your system.? This insures any type of infection will not be allowed into the system while your firewall is disabled.
Navigate to Add or Remove Programs and uninstall the firewall.? After reboot your computer.? When you come up to your desktop, either install the new version of the firewall or enable to Windows built in firewall (an equally sufficient option).
Comodo usually hangs up with this 100% usage when it is trying to update the software, and can receive a bad file/bad update which it will not be able to recognize and ?freak out? trying to install it.? If you update the software manually using this same update, it will spit you out an error like ? error 109? which is your signal you have found a bad update.
Good luck!
6 Responses
george
November 24th, 2009 at 4:50 am
1and this is your solution ? I am trying to figure out how to make Comodo work and in the same time to avoid the Cmdagent.exe process eating CPU. For start I just blocked the process from Comodo defense+ and I`m still digging this up.
RSWallace
December 7th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
2Re-installing or upgrading has not helped for this problem, as it seems to be related to the number of files in the My Pending Files section of DEFENSE+.
Comodo forum entries on this has at least one entry that spotted this, though the individual blamed files no longer exist on his system still found in the Pending Files List. This may be true, but I suspect that as the list grows, which happens when archives are unzipped, new software is loaded, antivirus files are updated, and so forth, a critical mass occurs that causes heavy CPU usage.
I have a dual processor system, and have noticed the problem when cmdagent.exe eats 50% of the CPU time (single CPU systems might approach 100%). It took awhile for me to isolate the problem, but each time I see the problem, My Pending Files has several thousand entries. At this point, cmdagent.exe takes off for a couple of minutes, maybe a little more; and repeats this periodically as long as the machine is running.
The workaround is to Remove all of the files. Most of us don’t look at the entries that wind up there anyhow. When the list is empty, or when it is small, cmdagent.exe causes no problems.
Irv
May 17th, 2010 at 6:40 am
3I have uninstalled comodo and it left behind this cmdagent.exe and when i try to stop the process my machine says it can’t find the file or process. It is in the services running as write this. Comodo says to reinstall and then uninstall again (which I dont see as a solution as i used Your Uninstaller 2010 to remove it in the first place so I think it is badly written uninstaller)I have ESET running and I dont want to uninstall THAT before doing their stupid suggestion. Is there anything I can do besides this??
Irv
May 17th, 2010 at 6:42 am
4P.S. The fist thing it did when I restarted the machine was to try and download some thing, thats how I knew it was left behind. ESET caught it. THX ESET!!
Irv
May 17th, 2010 at 7:47 am
5FIXED !! I did a restart into safe mode and remove write protection w/ LockHunter for Windows 7 (I have Ultimate 64 bit) and deleted it and on next restart the process was gone. THX for help pending anyway. I will monitor this site for future anyway as I see the potential on this site as I have been reading many of the posts and found many things useful already.
webmind
May 22nd, 2010 at 8:09 am
6I didn’t install comodo firewall just the antivirus program so why is Cmdagent.exe on my computer in the first place and is it safe to delete? How do I delete it? Thanks.
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