If you are ever checking your running processes for spyware (Start > Run > taskmgr > Processes) and are curious what one of the running programs is, Google it. A simple search of the executable file can help you quickly determine if this is something you want running or not.
For example, when I search “alg.exe” on Google, the first hit shows this is not a malicious process, rather something Windows needs running.
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