Tool:Win32/Cmdow

Tool:Win32/Cmdow is a highly dangerous computer infection that is categorized as a command line tool. Command line is a line of text that carries a command to the computer program, written by the human communicating with it. It is a text-based user interface and so most of the computer users these days do not know how to work with it (given that the GUI is more common). That gives Tool:Win32/Cmdow an upper hand, because average computer user would never be able to notice that something is wrong with the system. Especially as Tool:Win32/Cmdow does not have any visual infection symptoms.

Since Tool:Win32/Cmdow is a command line tool, it can be used by an attacker to affect windows in various ways. For example, it can move, rename, disable, restore, activate, close or kill various windows open on your system. Naturally, all these actions are performed without your knowledge or consent. So if you have your Windows Explorer interface behaving odd, it might be the case of the Tool:Win32/Cmdow infection.

Naturally, your system will go back to normal only if you remove Tool:Win32/Cmdow from your computer. Since it is a command line tool it presents various removal difficulties for the users who are not computer experts. In such a case, you should resort to using a legitimate computer safeguard application that will detect and erase Tool:Win32/Cmdow with ease, and your Explorer windows will no longer display erratic behavior.