Owned and developed by a PC security software vendor Sophos PLC, routerNT.exe is a Sophos messaging system that sends, receives, and manages messages between network servers, desktops, emails and other system gateways. It provides communication service between various system components, with the main purpose of sending and receiving information to and from the server and the network. It queues the messages when the system is down. RouterNT.exe is found in the subfolder of the local system folder (C:\); it has no viewable window, nor it is a Windows system file. The routernt.exe application listens for and/or sends data by the open ports to the Internet or LAN. There was a reported bug in the September 2012 release of one of Sophos software updates which caused several computers to identify the program to be a malware. Generally for all programs, the safest thing that a user can do is to uninstall the program and run a complete system PC scan.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. routernt.exe. is used by Microsoft Outlook, If you shut down routernt.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop routernt.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Microsoft Outlook, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed routernt.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Microsoft Outlook, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if routernt.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that routernt.exe, belongs to, in this case Microsoft Outlook