Re: Question re alg.exe

From: Roy (roysquires_at_TakeThisOuthotmail.com)
Date: 10/13/03 

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:44:28 +0000 (UTC)

Hi,
    I found this at:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,654619,00.asp

FILENAME: Alg.exe.
PROGRAM NAME: Application Layer Gateway.
DESCRIPTION: Part of Windows XP that provides support for ICS and Internet
Connection Firewall (ICF).
RECOMMENDED ACTION: If a third-party firewall warns you that ALG.exe wants
access, check to make sure you're not double-firewalled. If you are, disable
ICF. If you are using neither ICF nor ICS and are warned that ALG.exe is
trying to access the Net, deny it. A Trojan horse or worm may be trying to
use it as a backdoor.

Regards,
Roy.
"Geoff" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:3f89cd08$0$10965$fa0fcedb@lovejoy.zen.co.uk...
> I'm running Win XP Pro on standalone machine using NIS 2003 and I've got
> XP's Internet Connection Firewall switched on. I do not use Internet
> Connection Sharing.
>
> My problem is that I'm periodically getting Alerts from Norton that
alg.exe
> wants to access the internet and I don't know why.
>
> The remote connection is always to the same IP address 217.186.168.xxx on
> port 21 which I don't recognise.
>
> I don't want to disable the ALG service as I understand it's required for
> ICF.
>
> Any ideas anyone ?
>
> Thnx
>
> Geoff
>
>
>

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