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What is alg.exe?

Part of Application Layer Gateway Service by Microsoft

What is it?

The Application Layer Gateway Service provides support for 3rd party protocol plug-ins for Internet Connection Sharing (ICS).

What if I disable Application Layer Gateway Service?

If you are not using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service, the Application Layer Gateway Service and Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) can be safely disabled.

Description of alg.exe from Microsoft

“Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) is the use of a device with Internet access such as 3G cellular service, broadband via Ethernet, or other Internet gateway as an access point for other devices. It was implemented by Microsoft as a feature of its Windows operating system for sharing a single Internet connection on one computer between other computers on the same local area network. It makes use of DHCP and network address translation (NAT). ICS offers configuration for other standard services and some configuration of NAT.”

(alg.exe is a system file that is installed with Windows)

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How does alg.exe run?

Service - alg.exe runs as a background Windows service called 'ALG' (Υπηρεσία πύλης επιπέδου εφαρμογής). This is a system service that is installed with the Windows operating system and protected with Window's File Protection. This service runs as the LOCAL SERVICE account with minimum privileges on the local computer and presents anonymous credentials on the network. Υπηρεσία πύλης επιπέδου εφαρμογής runs as a program that can be started by the Service Controller and that obeys the service control protocol. This type of service runs in a process by itself.

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What is the community is seeing?	What is the community is doing?
About 0.1% of all Boost users have the alg.exe process running.	Of the 0.1% of alg.exe users, less than 1% have disabled it.

How resource intensive is alg.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

0.00007% CPU654.7%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

722 KB RAM3.3%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

Typical file (disk image) location:

C:\Windows\System32\alg.exe

Are there other versions of Application Layer Gateway Serv...?

alg.exe - version 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) (this)

alg.exe - version 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)

alg.exe - version 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)

What else is related?

themeui.dll (Windows-Design-API by Microsoft)

sstext3d.scr (Direct3D-Textbildschirmschoner by Microsoft)

photoviewershim.dll (Windows Live Photo Gallery by Microsoft)

logonui.exe (Windows-Anmeldebenutzeroberfläche by Microsoft)

msxml4a.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP1 by Microsoft)

msxml4r.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP1 by Microsoft)

msxml4.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP 2 by Microsoft)

freecell.exe (Entertainment Pack FreeCell Game by Microsoft)

wiaacmgr.exe (Windows Picture Acquisition Wizard by Microsoft)

prodaiintl1033.dll (ProdAddInIntl by Microsoft)

mimectl.dll (Microsoft® Exchange by Microsoft)

msvcp60.dll (Microsoft (R) Visual C++ by Microsoft)

rstrui.exe (System Restore Application by Microsoft)

dismhost.exe (Dism Host Servicing Process by Microsoft)

bcmsqlstartupsvc.exe (Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 by Microsoft)

msonsext.dll (Microsoft Office by Microsoft)

encwcbar.dll (Microsoft Encarta by Microsoft)

workfolderssvc.dll (Microsoft® Work Folders Service by Microsoft)

appreadiness.dll (AppReadiness by Microsoft)

ole32.dll (Microsoft OLE for Windows by Microsoft)

microsoft.biztalk.brmacontrols.dll (Microsoft (R) BizTalk (R) Server 2010 by Microsoft)

ssoconfig.exe (Microsoft® Enterprise Single Sign-On by Microsoft)

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows 8 (6.2.9200.0)

Windows 8 Enterprise (6.2.9200.0)

Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation (6.2.9200.0)

Windows 8 Pro (6.2.9200.0)

Windows 8 Pro N (6.2.9200.0)

Windows 8 Pro with Media Center (6.2.9200.0)

About Microsoft Corporation

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File details

File name: alg.exe

Publisher: Microsoft Corporation

Name: Application Layer Gateway Service

Description: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System

Version: 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247)

Product version: 6.2.9200.16384

Original file name: ALG.exe.mui

Windows file protection: Yes

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages

Total CPU: 0.0000654730%

Privileged CPU: 0%

User CPU: 0.00006547296654%

CPU cycle count: 40,324,347

CPU cycle count /min: 23,536

Memory utilization averages

Committed memory: 19.6 MB

Peak committed memory: 20.91 MB

Paged memory: 722 KB

Peak paged memory: 784 KB

Paged system memory: 41.49 KB

Non-paged system memory: 3.77 KB

Working set memory: 2 MB

Peak working set memory: 3.11 MB

Min working set memory: 1.73 MB

Private memory: 722 KB

Page faults: 923

Page faults /min: 1

Process I/O averages

Total read operations: 1

Total read transfer: 13.82 KB

Total other operations: 166

Other operations /min: 1

Total other transfer: 467 Bytes

Other Transfer /min: 0 Bytes

Resources

Handle count average: 76

Thread count average: 3

Thread resource averages

ntdll.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): Local Service

Windows platform: 32-bit

Runs as a service: Yes

Parent Processes

services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft)

Process Command

C:\Windows\System32\alg.exe

Service details

Name: Υπηρεσία πύλης επιπέδου εφαρμογής

Service name: ALG

Service type: Win32OwnProcess

Description: “Παρέχει υποστήριξη για προσθήκες πρωτοκόλλων άλλων κατασκευαστών για την Κοινόχρηστη σύνδεση στο Internet”

Image hashes

MD5: b5a707e902be5fc9b93c389fba6edf9c

SHA-1: 93b0eb4614bc45a0705e8f642b2fca0513951c5d

SHA-256: 3274d0fc8b3cc0c27ebe3d1e7aa31bf261f265fa31b0ef767f15289e2843a1d6

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows GUI

Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C++

File entropy: 6.35313

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api-ms-win-core-registry-l1-1-0.dll View import functions for api-ms-win-core-registry-l1-1-0.dll

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