What is the "alg.exe" ? Variant 533090

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:
5.1.2600.2180
MD5:
a85db1ac1cc5dc6a7589b49d31137696
SHA1:
0dc1ec9e00d02856ee4e0c93de0654965661e542
SHA256:
416bd926297dc8aa8b5f57090ae2eaef7ab9d81f9b9d3ad8357b619805a254d1
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! Antivirus2016-09-04 10:50:51
Panda Free Antivirus2016-09-02 19:08:19
360 Total Security2016-08-25 09:25:20
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.02016-07-24 17:47:19
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 7.02016-06-25 21:41:55
Outpost Security Suite Pro2016-06-03 22:41:41
COMODO Antivirus2016-05-29 23:03:27
ESET Endpoint Security 5.02016-05-29 17:51:24
Rising Software Deployment System2016-05-11 21:56:54
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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: 1212)

    Application Layer Gateway Service from Microsoft Corporation, safe. "This subcomponent of the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) / Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) service provides support for independent software vendors (ISVs) to write protocol plug-ins that allow their proprietary network protocols to pass through the firewall and work behind ICS." More info on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc783418(WS.10).aspx