Estimated safety rating

nihardwareservice.exe may be a dangerous program, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers too many of the "probable danger" flags described bellow. It is not yet known if nihardwareservice.exe is a virus or not that doesn't cause harm your computer. Please be careful with this program.

Executable file path

Usually, the default name and path where this application is stored is
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Native Instruments\Hardware\NIHardwareService.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this file is 7792919834ba15d860e99e783b77d846.

Is running as a service

This program is a Windows service. This means it operates on your PC in background, usually without showing anything to you. Most Windows services are useful programs, which provide useful functions to other programs or to Windows in general.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This app runs as a 32-bit program. It does not benefit of the entire set of features of modern PC chips. This ordinarily happens because the authors did not bother to upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

File description

The description stored in the exe is NIHardwareService.

File version

File version 1.2.5 (R409).

Manufacturer

Author Native Instruments GmbH.

Copyright

Copyright notice Copyright © 2009.

Potentially dangerous functions

Some dangerous features of the Operating System have been used, such as functions for intercepting the keyboard. We advise you to perform more in-depth research about this program.

Digitally signed

The digital certificate is missing from this program. The maker did not sign it. This is probably bad.

Can be uninstalled

This executable does NOT have an uninstall command stored in registry.