Owned and developed by Symantec Corporation, conduit.exe is the executable file that launches Conduit, the Symantec message filter and Web security software. Conduit can be found in the Windows Task Manager window and has the identifier name conduit.exe, running mainly as the Symantec Mail Security for the Microsoft Exchange (SMSME) version 6.5.2 and higher, as well as with Symantec cloud called MessageLads, the provider of unified messaging while maintaining web security (hosted security), between clients in different locations and countries which are included in the United Kingdom Parliament. MessageLabs provides a wide range of programmed security services that control, protect, encrypt, and archive network communications across Email, Intranet, Web/Internet, and Instant Messaging that are added in the acquisition of the Omnipod in the year 2005. Symantec Corporation largely competes with major companies that offer similar services that are offered by Microsoft, Google, ScanSafe, Websense, Webroot, and McAfee among other companies.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Symantec Mail Security, 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 conduit.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 conduit.exe, belongs to, in this case Symantec Mail Security