alg.exe - what is it?

[Stu R]

I keep getting this crop up as a trojan horse when AVG anti-virus scans the computer. Annoying as every time I reboot it finds it again, regardless of the usual tricks like doing it in safe mode etc.

I've obviously googled it, and get conflicting reports about what it is, with some saying it's safe and a regular windows component, and others saying that it's imminent death and my computer is about to take over the world and all that live in it. Well not that bad but you get the picture.

Other antivirus software doesn't pick it up, windows defender says everything is tickety boo.

So am I right in assuming that AVG is just being rubbish and trying to scare me?

Cheers
Stu.