Estimated safety rating

nvnetworkservice.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" criteria described in this document. It is not yet known if nvnetworkservice.exe is malware or an ok program that doesn't cause harm your PC. Please be careful with this program.

Executable file path

Usually, the default name and path where the program is stored is
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NetService\NvNetworkService.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this file is 020f45e362d3b57ccc5735582bb1a6ec.

Is running as a service

This program is registered as a Windows service. This means it operates on your system in background, usually without displaying any user interface to you. Most Windows services are useful programs, which perform useful features to other programs or to the Windows Operating System.

Accesses the internet

This program uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is quite normal. For example, most of the programs on your computer check for new updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This executable runs as a 32-bit program. It can not benefit of the entire power of nowadays' computer processors. This ordinarily happens because the publishers did not upgrade it to 64-bit code.

File description

The description extracted from the program is NVIDIA Network Service.

File version

File version 2.4.13.69.

Manufacturer

Producer NVIDIA Corporation.

Copyright

Legal copyright (C) 2015 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved..

Potentially dangerous functions

Some unusual functions of the Operating System appear to be used, such as functions for recording the keyboard. We recommend you to read more about this program.

Digitally signed

nvnetworkservice.exe is digitally signed. Today the large majority of serious software applications are digitally signed.

Valid digital signature

The digital signature is not valid, which is a strong indicator that this software application may be a virus and that somebody most likely modified it after the signature was applied. We advise extreme caution!

Certifier name

Digital certificate name: NVIDIA Corporation

Issuer name

Certificate's issuer name: VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA

Can be uninstalled

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