Is Akamai Netsession potentially harmful?

heatman323

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I don't know if I posted in the right section, but I really dont know what Akamai is, it just keeps popping up and it doesn't help that it popped up around the time my laptop started crashing daily.
 

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heatman323 said:
I don't know if I posted in the right section, but I really dont know what Akamai is, it just keeps popping up and it doesn't help that it popped up around the time my laptop started crashing daily.
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You must have some Adobe products. I've never see it on my PC but have on my Mac. It is used by Adobe as a download manager.
 

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