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What is nusb3mon.exe? USB 3.0 Monitor?

Vendor:      Electronics Corporation
Product:     USB 3.0 Monitor
Vendor Website:     
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

Process is Bad PC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is bad.
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Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

Purpose: nusp3mon.exe is part of USB 3.0 Monitor from NEC Electronics Corporation. It is included with certain NEC external USB 3.0 hard drives. It can probably be disabled but disabling it may prevent the drive from achieving full USB 3.0 transfer speeds,

nusb3mon.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.


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nusb3mon.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
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Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 1.67%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 4 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
nusb3mon.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x358c81ada09e0b6906db82ea75b836d5 5/13/2022 5:57:00 PM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 104 KB
2 Status 0x8943465befa91044227d42e84ecb8280 11/22/2021 8:11:00 PM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 112 KB
3 Status 0x9d51ea92a612b37e76e5e4621650c50a 9/16/2021 11:27:00 PM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 0 KB
4 Status 0x08b438a5a06cd877f19b92f6868c031d 8/6/2019 5:04:00 PM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 104 KB
5 Status 0x51c8885b6a00904c0252704c9fb0f43a 5/29/2019 5:41:00 AM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 110 KB
6 Status 0xae797b72d85e87d403fc11135507922c 4/30/2019 6:57:00 PM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 0 KB
7 Status 0x050bdeeeca7a028efb7c8b1071c5e3ec 1/20/2019 1:52:00 AM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 110 KB
8 Status 0x087a06db98d0e84c0de90ee308707e63 12/14/2018 7:36:00 PM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 104 KB
9 Status 0x1a5024838562999647a7e1b6b62f91f4 8/28/2018 9:51:00 PM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 104 KB
10 Status 0x61aef54fbf48e280ffbfff76fd90b068 8/5/2013 5:23:00 AM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 110 KB
11 Status 0x63cf48887cda572232e0e547ddccd4f1 6/27/2011 5:33:00 AM Unknown Unknown USB 3.0 Monitor 104 KB


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