What is the "alg.exe" ? Variant 506214

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:
1f559252e6d787b9b48463bb2c8ceac2
SHA1:
5ccca70cdbfbcbeac37e174a475d9bc9a77e2967
SHA256:
3ef0f622e9816ceaa18be4daf7021107a34c80d019d461666866b6f1605c14c4
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
avast! Antivirus2016-09-07 23:10:46
Avira Antivirus2016-09-07 21:51:44
360 Total Security2016-09-07 18:27:08
Avast Antivirus2016-09-07 16:34:11
ESET Smart Security 9.0.396.12016-09-07 11:33:00
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 8.02016-09-07 10:44:31
Zillya Antivirus2016-09-07 10:27:35
ESET Endpoint Security 5.02016-09-07 08:29:03
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 7.02016-09-06 19:09:14
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: 165)

    In this MD5 version the file is safe, was not marked as a threat or virus-containing application by any antivirus software. Check the MD5 hash, there can be more versions of this file. For more info about the file watch the TheDutchJewel's review or directly http://www.tech-faq.com/alg.shtml