ALG.exe
Application Layer Gateway Service by Microsoft
| Version: | 5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-0852) |
| MD5: | 1f559252e6d787b9b48463bb2c8ceac2 |
| SHA1: | 5ccca70cdbfbcbeac37e174a475d9bc9a77e2967 |
| SHA256: | 3ef0f622e9816ceaa18be4daf7021107a34c80d019d461666866b6f1605c14c4 |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
What is ALG.exe?
The Application Layer Gateway Service provides support for 3rd party protocol plug-ins for Internet Connection Sharing (ICS).
About 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 wa”
Details
| File name: | alg.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Application Layer Gateway Service |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\alg.exe |
| File version: | 5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-0852) |
| Product version: | 5.1.2600.5512 |
| Size: | 43.5 KB (44,544 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.222903 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'ALG' (Servicio de puerta de enlace de nivel de aplicación)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00011812% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006035% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00005776% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 29,135 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.2 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.53 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 1.82 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.2 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 36.34 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 39.13 MB | |
| Working set: | 1.95 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 3.75 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,095/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 107 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER count: | 2 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Undefined |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | C:\Windows\System32\alg.exe |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | ALG |
| Display name: | Servicio de puerta de enlace de nivel de aplicación |
| Description: | “Proporciona compatibilidad entre los complementos de protocolo de terceros y la Conexión compartida a Internet” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
28.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
25.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
12.50% |
|
| Windows 8 |
10.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
5.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
5.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
3.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro Preview |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise N |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Developer Preview |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 35.50% of Application Layer Gateway Service.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
18.73% |
|
| Lenovo |
13.48% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
13.11% |
|
| ASUS |
12.73% |
|
| Compaq |
8.24% |
|
| Acer |
7.49% |
|
| Toshiba |
7.49% |
|
| Intel |
5.24% |
|
| Sony |
3.75% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
3.37% |
|
| American Megatrends |
2.25% |
|
| Sahara |
1.50% |
|
| Samsung |
1.12% |
|
| Alienware |
0.75% |
|
| Medion |
0.75% |
|
