Anyone know how to permanently kill livecomm.exe?

TheMorningStar · 30 Mar 2014 at 04:56

It's constantly downloading on my brothers laptop. totally destroys my home network for any other system trying to access the internet. QoS does nothing. I need this thing dead. seems to be unique to windows8 but I have zero experience of 8.

yashiro · 30 Mar 2014 at 08:29

Try opening Task Manager and kill any, and all, 'Metro' apps.

Livecomm is some kind of host service for all the Microsoft crud like messenger, mail and skydrive. Check sync settings for things like Mail and Skydrive.

d_brennen · 30 Mar 2014 at 08:33

There must be something else at play, a Windows service should not interfere with networking on other computers. I'd get malwarebytes on the case tbh

You may be able to disable any Windows messaging applications from starting with the machine, but it still begs the question as to why you are seeing this behaviour

TheMorningStar · 30 Mar 2014 at 13:40

yashiro said:
Try opening Task Manager and kill any, and all, 'Metro' apps.

Livecomm is some kind of host service for all the Microsoft crud like messenger, mail and skydrive. Check sync settings for things like Mail and Skydrive.

Yeah I know that much, I have trained my brother to kill the process tree but every time he restarts it's back or it will start up on its own. I see so many postings online about it but no solution. What makes matters worse is I think we have a second windows 8 system in place now with the new lodger.

d_brennen said:
There must be something else at play, a Windows service should not interfere with networking on other computers. I'd get malwarebytes on the case tbh

You may be able to disable any Windows messaging applications from starting with the machine, but it still begs the question as to why you are seeing this behaviour

It kills any other system on my home network at the router level, it just overwhelms it, this POS Microsoft service will literally eat as close to 100% bandwidth as it can. I'm guessing tiny packets too, millions of them given the way the router is acting while this service is running.

Orcvader · 30 Mar 2014 at 14:17

Might be a virus/malware using the same name as the same Windows process. I had one called "taskhost.exe" which was simply a CPU bitcoin miner. Under task manager, right click it and see it's file location. Not sure what the actual file location it's suppose to be in since I don't have Windows Live installed, but if the location looks fishy, then delete it.

Run Malwarebytes in Windows safe mode as well, that usually gets rid of it.

TheMorningStar · 30 Mar 2014 at 14:24

Orcvader said:
Might be a virus/malware using the same name as the same Windows process. I had one called "taskhost.exe" which was simply a CPU bitcoin miner. Under task manager, right click it and see it's file location. Not sure what the actual file location it's suppose to be in since I don't have Windows Live installed, but if the location looks fishy, then delete it.

Run Malwarebytes in Windows safe mode as well, that usually gets rid of it.

I think I may have ruled that out the last time I looked at it but I'll look at that again. I have wondered if it was some kind of botnet. He has some kind of proxy software on his system also which I have long been suspicious of.