What is the "alg.exe" ? Variant 505462

Our database contains 1385 different files for filename alg.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the alg.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name alg.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Application Layer Gateway Service. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 1 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process alg.exe.

alg.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Application Layer Gateway Service
Version:
5.1.2600.5512
MD5:
8c515081584a38aa007909cd02020b3d
SHA1:
ef5728c819f466bfe56c36bc9db3fac004ef3d50
SHA256:
a5e13ca10f702928e0de84c74d0ea8accb117fd76fbabc55220c75c4ffd596dc
Size:
44544
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows XP
Occurence:
High oc2

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
Panda Antivirus Pro 20162016-09-07 22:57:52
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition2016-09-07 18:39:01
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall Antivirus2016-09-07 17:15:23
Avast Antivirus2016-09-07 07:24:30
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 20122016-09-07 04:06:13
Norton Internet Security2016-09-07 01:03:24
360 Total Security2016-09-06 20:43:29
Sophos Anti-Virus2016-09-06 20:42:44
Microsoft Security Essentials2016-09-06 07:03:39
AVG Internet Security2016-09-06 01:24:44
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

Is the Process "alg.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
100% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Our final rating for this file is Safe. Final rating is based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
Filename "alg.exe" is used by Microsoft Windows System files. Many threats uses filenames of System Processes to camouflage itself. You should consider suspected any file which uses system filename and is not stored in system directory or has invalid file version information. Correct system file contains full file version information from Microsoft.

90% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Safe .
10% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Threat .

User Reviews of the "alg.exe"

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\alg.exe (Variant: 675)

    Application Layer Gateway Service from Microsoft Corporation