The executable process file carboniteservice.exe (version 4.0.4.806) belongs to Carbonite Secure Backup Engine-Backup for Everyone ™ and is identified to be associated with Carbonite Security Backup Communication Service or Carbonite Security Backup Engines. The process file, as developed by the Company, Carbonite Inc. is an application that is also considered to be a part of the software Carbonite, Carbonite Online Backup, Carbonite Secure Backup Engine or Carbonite Secure Backup-Backup for Everyone. The process file is found to be running in the Task Manager under the process carboniteservice.exe that is not CPU intensive, not a Windows system file nor does it have a visible window. It is validated by a trustworthy company such as Carbonite, which has signed its certificate and has been issued by Symantec Time-Stamp Services Signer-G3. The process file is found to be located in the folder Program Files\carbonite\carbonite backup and in the subfolder C:\Program Files with a file size in Windows 7/XP of 1,951,376 bytes (22% of all incidences), 1,677,248 bytes and 14 other variants. It has the ability to monitor applications, and utilizes ports to in order to connect to a Local Area Network (LAN) or the Internet.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Carbonite Secure Backup, 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 carboniteservice.exe. 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 carboniteservice.exe, belongs to, in this case Carbonite Secure Backup