File purpose and description:

Reader_sl.exe is a program file which is was most likely installed on your computer with your web browser. The exact disk location is also shown below to verfiy it is not spyware, as many spyware programs use similiar names and just locate them elsewhere on your hard drive. Always check the proper disk location of your programs if you are suspicious. This reader_sl.exe software's main purpose speed up the read time of Adobe documents (PDF files) when viewing in your browser. This program is called Adobe Reader Speed Launch and it is from Adobe corporation. This program is considered safe and is not spyware or adware. (See the details below for the actual location of this file.)

Actual file or task name:
reader_sl.exe

File type:
This is an executable program.

File or folder location:
This file location should be at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\Reader_sl.exe"

General information:
Be aware that many tasks will be similiar names to existing tasks or processes. You can always view the running tasks on your computer by pressing ctrl-alt-del to view the windows "task manager", and then view the "processes" tab. This will show you all tasks running or currently active on your PC. Although this shows you all running tasks, it does not show dll file thats are loaded, as they get loaded as part of other processes. Many spyware writers attempt to hide their files on your computer, for example, reader_sl.exe may be intentionally misspelled to look like a similiar task, or spyware may be named very similiar to a Windows system task. The reason they do this is so you cannot easily recognize the name in your tasklist as I have mentioned above. Make sure always check the location of the file if you are concerned. You can always find the location of reader_sl.exe on your computer by using your Windows search options, but I will also try to list the file location of every file described on this website, so you can verify the correct location. You can view the entire tasklist directory with the link below.

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