What is nvnetworkservice.exe?

nvnetworkservice.exe is part of NVIDIA Network Service and developed by NVIDIA Corporation according to the nvnetworkservice.exe version information.

nvnetworkservice.exe's description is "NVIDIA Network Service"

nvnetworkservice.exe is digitally signed by NVIDIA Corporation.

nvnetworkservice.exe is usually located in the 'c:\program files (x86)\nvidia corporation\netservice\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about nvnetworkservice.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on nvnetworkservice.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameNVIDIA Network Service
Company nameNVIDIA Corporation
File descriptionNVIDIA Network Service
Internal nameNVNetworkService.exe
Original filenameNVNetworkService.exe
Legal copyright(C) 2014 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.
Product version1.0.2.5
File version1.0.2.5

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameNVIDIA Network Service
Company nameNVIDIA Corporation
File descriptionNVIDIA Network Service
Internal nameNVNetworkService.exe
Original filenameNVNetworkService.exe
Legal copyright(C) 2014 NVIDIA Corporation. All rig..
Product version1.0.2.5
File version1.0.2.5

Digital signatures [?]

nvnetworkservice.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameNVIDIA Corporation
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA
Certificate serial number43bb437d609866286dd839e1d00309f5

VirusTotal report

None of the 66 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the nvnetworkservice.exe file.

None of the 66 anti-virus programs detected the nvnetworkservice.exe file.

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD56f5d2728019dce7bff3bac1885cc0449
SHA256d62ecfe384361f04e6af446cbb8cf64a58556aefc0e04204f81073b016960eb8

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to nvnetworkservice.exe:

nvnetworkservice.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

nvnetworkservice.exe - Application Error. The instruction at "0xXXXXXXXX" referenced memory at "0xXXXXXXXX". The memory could not be "read/written". Click on OK to terminate the program.

NVIDIA Network Service has stopped working.

End Program - nvnetworkservice.exe. This program is not responding.

nvnetworkservice.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

nvnetworkservice.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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What did other users do?

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User vote results: There were 49 votes to remove and 18 votes to keep

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Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

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david gohre writes

2 thumbs

Gonna delete this garbage. I am sick and tired of useless bloatware. All this does, NVIDIA, if you are reading, is promotes ATI video cards.

KEEP YOUR TRASH OFF MY COMPUTER, I downloaded a driver, not a bunch of crap.

# 17 May 2014, 18:14

Roger Karlsson writes

0 thumbs

Any idea what the purpose of nvnetworkservice.exe is?

# 26 May 2014, 4:29

AzDayton writes

0 thumbs

Since I'm on my phone's hotspot (and I have a data use monitor running) that warned me that I'd exceeded my usage. When I looked into it, I found that this NvNetworkService.exe was the only thing tapping the data, and it was chowing down on about .1MB/sec while I was watching. In this case, it ate up 500MB in a couple of hours. Plus about 500MB yesterday before I knew there was an issue. So I'm down about 1/5th of my monthly allotment in the first three days. Nice! Thanks NVidia! I checked, it's not a virus, it's the actual NVidia product. Apparently they just don't care how much data they suck down on a metered connection!

# 27 May 2015, 14:06

Roger Karlsson writes

0 thumbs

@AzDayton: Thank you!

# 4 Jul 2015, 8:25

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