What is the "alg.exe" ? Variant 519957

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:
6d2018aee93285f2a8bef55d722187a3
SHA1:
5a55104a1df591dafb7c7ddabf1d2302bf7b28d8
SHA256:
eb134b07dbbc02bd3dc625868ee13c3c8a651180fc04432aaf919e3d50d6a68e
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 10:16:13
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition2016-09-07 10:16:13
Panda Free Antivirus2016-09-07 10:16:13
360 Total Security2016-09-07 10:16:13
Avast Antivirus2016-09-07 00:01:51
Microsoft Security Essentials2016-09-04 23:29:47
Kaspersky Total Security2016-09-04 23:29:47
COMODO Cloud Antivirus2016-09-03 21:06:18
Baidu Antivirus2016-08-29 19:59:22
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 6.02016-08-29 19:02:29
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 Admin for file C:\Windows\System32\alg.exe (Variant: 612)

    alg.exe is part of operating system. It is required for third party firewalls or Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to connect to the internet.