What is Ontology.dll?
Ontology.dll is part of NVIDIA GeForce Experience Application Ontology and developed by NVIDIA Corporation according to the Ontology.dll version information.
Ontology.dll's description is "Application Ontology library"
Ontology.dll is digitally signed by Nvidia Corporation.
Ontology.dll is usually located in the 'c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\nvidia\nvbackend\applicationontology\' folder.
None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about Ontology.dll.
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Vendor and version information [?]
The following is the available information on Ontology.dll:
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Product name | NVIDIA GeForce Experience Application Ontology |
| Company name | NVIDIA Corporation |
| File description | Application Ontology library |
| Internal name | Ontology.dll |
| Original filename | Ontology.dll |
| Legal copyright | (C) 2014 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. |
| Product version | 19.0.0.0 |
| File version | 19.0.0.0 |
Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:
| Product name | NVIDIA GeForce Experience Applicatio.. |
| Company name | NVIDIA Corporation |
| File description | Application Ontology library |
| Internal name | Ontology.dll |
| Original filename | Ontology.dll |
| Legal copyright | (C) 2014 NVIDIA Corporation. All rig.. |
| Product version | 19.0.0.0 |
| File version | 19.0.0.0 |
Digital signatures [?]
Ontology.dll has a valid digital signature.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Signer name | Nvidia Corporation |
| Certificate issuer name | VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA |
| Certificate serial number | 54f964fb76269f754e343409cda89342 |
VirusTotal report
None of the 55 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the Ontology.dll file.
Hashes [?]
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| MD5 | 7227bc1e1e0a12f1601b7b203e7eda33 |
| SHA256 | 0d22baf0864c544dadf6158d3a516025397c93aeed6d5df7af6a2543ddbe9794 |
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What did other users do?
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Malware or legitimate?
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Comments
Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.
I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.
Avast!Free Antivirus reported it as virus "Win32:Evo-gen [Susp]" on 24th January 2015
# 24 Jan 2015, 5:51
Jannai Dorando writes
Yes it was. Some how it recreatet itself or was recreated after Avast moved it into the container.
# 27 Jan 2015, 11:24
Jannai Dorando writes
I've uploaded it and nothing was found, also I've send it to Avast so they can fix their database
# 28 Jan 2015, 10:15
Cybios writes
Hi,i have a question:in the description i can find Ontology.dll but there is another folder ( data ) inside of this are 3 folders with a lot of pics. folder and dat. from a lot of different games i had never played...Can i delete this folder o.O ?
# 13 Apr 2015, 12:11
Martin Hamer writes
McAfee internet security, recently reported(24-3-15) that Ontology.dll was infected with Trojan: PWS-FBYV!CAEC305B5825 and had infected other files on my PC, it removed the infected files and left a link to the Trojan in McAfee's database which when clicked on gave no information whatsoever about this Trojan.
# 27 Apr 2015, 0:08
Martin Hamer writes
I think some anti-virus companies leave some false reports in their databases to catch other anti-virus companies that are using/copying their databases without permission.
If in doubt the safe thing to do is to delete NVIDIA nvbackend folders
# 27 Apr 2015, 0:55
Jannai Dorando writes