• Properties:

• System Process: No
• Background Process: No
• Application Process:Yes
• Common Path:
  C:\ Program Files\ gaim.exe
• Uses Network:Yes
• Uses Internet:Yes

Description:

The gaim.exe program is a multi protocol instant messaging chat client upholding a variety of standards that correspond with the AIM, ICQ, MSN, Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. The file gaim.exe is related to the application Pidgin from the Open Source Development Community.

The process file gaim.exe is not associated with the Microsoft Windows operating system. The program gaim.exe uses ports to connect to local area networks or the internet. Users can login to several accounts on different IM networks simultaneously. The gaim.exe process is active whenever the user is online, be it AIM, Yahoo, or IRC. The gaim.exe program runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. The file gaim.exe also coordinates well with GNOME 2 and KDE 3.1s system tray as well as Windows own system tray. The program gaim.exe works without requiring the buddy list window to be open at all times.

Pidgin supports many features of the various networks in file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It even goes beyond that and offers several unique features including buddy pounces, which give the ability to inform, send messages, play a sound, or run a program when a particular buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; plug-ins, corresponding of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extend message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversation and many more features.

The text- based version of Pidgin is called Finch. It supports the same IM network, but you can run it in a console window. It can be used in Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. Libpurple is the programming library that powers Pidgin and Finch and is responsible for connecting to all the IM networks and for managing your accounts and preferences. Edgewall Software developed the program gaim.exe.

Recommendations:

This is a safe process. There is no necessity to remove this process from your system or change it in any way.