shizuko Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 (edited) I was downloading a torrent with utorrent and my firewall blocked a connection thought my own internal IP (10.1.1.5) to 127.0.0.1 in the application alg.exe, since it's was a connection to my machine I allowed but just after that another alert appeared, an external IP trying to connect to alg.exe, was it an invasion or what is related to alg.exe ? Edited January 19, 2009 by shizuko
cluberti Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 alg.exe is the Application Layer Gateway Service. You would see that if an app was trying to make a request via a hook into the firewall (which most torrent clients do install). It's likely your bittorrent client was trying to bypass the firewall via an alg plugin.
shizuko Posted January 19, 2009 Author Posted January 19, 2009 I see, thank you for the information, I have never seen this happen before so I wondered...
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