What is the "alg.exe" ? Variant 545634

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:
906d6932d533f1591caa84e846b9ba06
SHA1:
82de9dd79be8edcf1f8bc593e438cb1ba713b3d4
SHA256:
4bb9d81d33542f207c5672e3ad8ff776d2504a0bf8dac4efe54bda9c483f3bc9
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
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 20142016-07-12 18:12:24
avast! Antivirus2016-07-04 22:54:25
McAfee VirusScan2016-06-19 20:42:21
Norton AntiVirus2016-06-19 20:42:21
AVG Internet Security 20122016-06-15 16:03:56
ESET Smart Security 3.02016-04-04 17:35:05
Panda Cloud Antivirus2016-03-29 02:32:47
Symantec Endpoint Protection2016-03-18 15:36:25
PSafe Total2016-02-02 18:13:48
ESET Smart Security 6.02015-12-06 18:27:30
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 Waldo for file C:\Windows\System32\alg.exe (Variant: 9769)

    yes it's safe but it's easly infectet, so protect your computer well.