ntkrnlmp.exe is a legitimate file. It is also called Windows NT Kerenal Memory Management It belongs toWindows NT Operation System and it is developed by Microsoft Corporation. It is commonly stored in  C:\Windows\System32. Since it is a very essential file for Microsoft NT Operating System, the malware programmers or cyber criminals write the different types of malicious programs and name it as ntkrnlmp.exe to damage the software and hardware.

 

This malware can be of differet types and hence it can infect the system in different ways. In somecase you might the system performance is very low, sometimes the ntkrnlmp.exe  file takes more cpu memory or certain times it redirects the system  to some strange websites or you might also end up getting some annoying popup ads, then the system might be affected by ntkrnlmp.exe . To confirm that go to task manager by pressing the combination of keys ctrl+alt+del and go to the process tab  and right click on the ntkrnlmp.exe and go to the location, if the location is a sub folder of  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office then the system is not affected by ntkrnlmp.exe, if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by ntkrnlmp.exe malware.