have you heard of nwiz.exe.?

Question

What is it?
It's turning up on start-up and it never has before. A google search brings up conflicting information, with some sating it's part of a graphic card and others saing it's a agoabot or a trojan. Any thoughts?

if it is part of my video card why would it just starting running now? i check on start up everyday what I have running, and end task on any un-needed functions so I always know what is running daily.

Answer 1

my brain just blew a fuse! doy!!!

Answer 2

It might have started running suddently now due to a number of reasons:
1) Your video card was updated and you rarely reboot. You just noticed it now because you finally rebooted.
2) Someone else at the residence updated the card
3) You just ran and applied Windows Updates that fixed whatever prevented it from running in the first place.
4) It's malware, download Spybot scan it. If you still think it is a virus, run AVG.

It is NOT likely it is a virus or rootkit. Viruses and rootkits are often designed to hide themselves as a top priority, which means that you will never see them running in your tasklist.

If you think for some reason that your computer just has to be infected or that you were singled out or targetted and that nwiz.exe is definitely some form of malware, seek professional help removing it or reinstall your operating system.

Google searches for the identies of .exe files is NOT generally a great way to find out whether or not a file is hostile or not. Most viruses already name themselves similar to legitimate programs and software, and the agobot that you mentioned was the creation of a hacker over 3 years ago. The author, Ago, has been in jail or on probation in Germany for at least 2 years now. Most AV software detects all variants quite easily.

Answer 3

Run a scan with your antivirus, if it detects it as bad, remove it...if not you are ok since it is for your NVidia Video Card.

Answer 4

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/nwiz/

http://www.file.net/process/nwiz.exe.html

part of your graphics card