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What is nipalsm.exe? nipalsm?

Vendor:      National Instruments
Product:     NIPALSM
Vendor Website:      http://www.ni.com/
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

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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: nipalsm.exe is a process associated with National Instruments NI-PAL Service Manager for Windows from National Instruments Corporation.

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


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nipalsm.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: 0.01%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 2 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
nipalsm.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xfb6268828f195c54235731a18ad702fc 10/2/2014 6:41:00 PM Unknown Unknown nipalsm 12 KB
2 Status 0x9b7779080ceac71345457c2e6dce83f2 1/20/2012 1:24:00 PM Unknown 2.0.2b0 nipalsm 5 KB
3 Status 0x823a4aaf17460b181b408be4845b1263 1/16/2012 4:14:00 PM Unknown 1.6.2f1 nipalsm 20 KB
4 Status 0x93354844240803d76f7f6a1e4a165b67 1/15/2012 7:26:00 PM Unknown 2.0.0f0 nipalsm 5 KB
5 Status 0xad54f5e0c708573f72819e777a5a71e9 9/10/2011 2:56:00 AM Unknown 1.6.3f0 nipalsm 20 KB
6 Status 0xa01029f0e59c8d6796019a5ca8278584 2/10/2011 4:54:00 PM Unknown 2.0.2f0 nipalsm 5 KB
7 Status 0x316e1cfac40e18a6a022a6459353da56 1/31/2010 12:37:00 AM Unknown 2.0.1f0 nipalsm 5 KB


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