Versions

9.3.21.0	4.40%
9.3.16.0	14.29%
9.3.16.0	7.69%
8.3.23.0	1.10%
8.3.14.1	5.49%
8.3.14.1	13.19%
7.2.17.0	3.30%
4.11.9.1	34.07%
4.11.9.1	2.20%
3.10.8.2	5.49%
2.47.62.1	8.79%

There are 11 versions of daemonu.exe in the wild, the latest version being 9.3.21.0. It is started as a Windows Service called 'nvUpdatusService' with the name 'nvUpdatusService' and described as “NVIDIA Settings Update Manager service, used to check new updates from NVIDIA server.”. . The average file size is about 1.89 MB. The file is a digitally signed and issued to NVIDIA Corporation by VeriSign. Some variations of the file have been seen to be installed with the program NVIDIA Update 10.4.0 from NVIDIA Corporation. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0033% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 10.74 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 16.29 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 1.39 KB per minute for reads and 11.43 KB per minute for writes.

NVIDIA Settings Update Manager is part of the GeForce brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia which expands GPU functionality beyond the traditional rasterization of 3D graphics, to turn it into a high-performance computing device able to execute arbitrary programming code in the same way a CPU does.