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Those listed files should be OK. Friday, March 17, 2006 at 9:04 am Posted by jcw (5124 messages posted) To have those three files in the locations that you have listed is not unexpected. If your anti-virus or malware scans have not detected an infection in any of the locations you have listed (probably in the windows\prefetch folder, if any), you need not delete those files in those listed locations. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: alg.exe, spoolsv.exe, repeated, is it a virus? Friday, March 17, 2006 at 12:32 pm Posted by Larry (1364 messages posted) Those files and their locations are valid. The only note I'd make is for the alg.exe file. That's the Application Layer Gateway service and is not needed if you don't use internet connection sharing or the Windows firewall. DON'T delete it, just DISABLE it, and you can save several megs of RAM by not having it startup at boot. Go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services. Near the top of the list find that service and double click on it, then in the drop down list in the Startup type box select Disabled, then click Apply. You can also click the Stop button to terminate the service immediately, or wait till the next boot for the change to take effect. On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 7:33 am, mar wrote: >Hello.....I have read that the alg.exe, spoolsv .exe and vsmon.exe processes, are >right if they are in this rute: >windows\system32\, and they are all on this location, but I read that if they appear >in other locations could be a virus, and yes, they show in other folders > > alg.exe shows in: > >c:\windows\system32 >c:\windows\$NtServicePackUninstall$ >c:\windows\prefetch >c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386 > > spoolsv.exe shows in: > >c:\windows\system32 >c:\windows\$NtServicePackUninstall$ >c:\windows\$NtUninstallkB896423$ >c:\windows\prefetch >c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386 >c:\windows\$hf_mig$\KB896423\SP2QFE > >and vsmon.exe appears in: > >c:\windows\system32 (como vsmonapi.dll) >c:\windows\prefetch (como vsmon.exe-1609C098.pf) >c:\windows\prefetch\zonelabs >c:\archivos de programa\zonelabs\zonealarm\repair > > >is this normal or should I delete it from all files that aren´t system32? > > >Thanks in advance > [Reply or follow-up to this message] alg.exe should be in "Manual" setting Friday, March 17, 2006 at 10:36 pm Posted by SpiritWind (575 messages posted) Both the "Services" "Guide(s)" from Tweakhound.com & antiSPYWARE Expert "Black Viper" recommend that the Application Layer Gateway Service ( alg.exe ) should have a setting of "Manual", not "Disable" . [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum