File am26318.dll is owned by the Ad Muncher software and is usually seen located on the C:\Program Files folder of Windows computer system. The Ad Muncher software is an ad blocker that protects a user’s privacy by detracting third party attempts on reaching a user’s computer database in collecting information. This software is an anti-spyware, anti-adware, and anti-dialler application that work immediately upon installation initiated by the user. A spyware is software that can install itself without the user initiating the installation either on the computer or on the browser of the user. Its job is to gather information secretly about the internet usage of the user and sends it out to third party tracking systems. An adware, on the other hand, is advertising-supported software. Advertising-supported software acts as the main controller of advertisement popups for generation of income which may not be wanted by the user. The dialler is mostly utilized by hackers through the use of a user’s telephone line to generate revenue. These three are what the Ad Muncher software mainly looks out for.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. am26318.dll. is used by Ad Muncher, If you shut down am26318.dll, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop am26318.dll, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Ad Muncher, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed am26318.dll

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Ad Muncher, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if am26318.dll. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that am26318.dll, belongs to, in this case Ad Muncher