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No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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nsd.exe
IBM wnsd by International Business Machines Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 8.5.30.1233 |
| MD5: | e4fa829273fdf5bd20fc9804fd5f9c20 |
| SHA1: | dd9776694a34434480a96247171b70b75d948f09 |
| SHA256: | 8bbfcb4308eed3926462101739af44b9a0d82bd7721d9d5da54e8df23c981bcc |
Overview
nsd.exe runs as a service under the name Lotus Notes Diagnostics with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by International Business Machines Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | nsd.exe |
| Publisher: | IBM |
| Product name: | IBM wnsd |
| Description: | wnsd |
| Typical file path: | C:\notes\nsd.exe |
| Original name: | wnsd.exe |
| File version: | 8.5.30.1233 |
| Size: | 4.25 MB (4,453,768 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | International Business Machines Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, March 17, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, May 19, 2012 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows Console |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'Lotus Notes Diagnostics'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00007046% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006518% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000528% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,766 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 10.88 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 11.57 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 420 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 10.88 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 41.32 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 43.21 MB | |
| Working set: | 11.57 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 12.11 MB | |
| Page faults: | 7,204/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 14 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 5 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 50 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI USER count: | 1 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Undefined |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | C:\notes\nsd.exe -svcinvoke -ini "C:\notes\notes.ini" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | Lotus Notes Diagnostics |
| Description: | “Performs diagnostics on behalf of Lotus Notes” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess, InteractiveProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
50.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
50.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of IBM wnsd.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
|
