Malware.Mumawow

Malware.Mumawow is considered a Potentially Dangerous Tool, which can further be classified as a spyware application.

A Potentially Dangerous Tool is an application that is not harmful in its design, the only time this type of tool will become a PC threat is if deployed by unauthorized parties, for potentially malicious intent.

Malware.Mumawow is further given the classification as a low risk application, which generally speaking should do no harm to a computer system, unless installed without the knowledge or permission from the system’s user.

Being a low risk program, Malware.Mumawow may track online habits - as provided for in a privacy policy or End User License Agreement (EULA) - or may display advertising within the applications themselves, these programs have only vague, minimal or negligible effects on the system’s privacy.

A further classification Malware.Mumawow receives is to be regarded by some experts as a Backdoor. It has been claimed that if Malware.Mumawow allows for the unauthorized access to an infected PC, then Malware.Mumawow will then have capability to spread over a network exploiting various Windows vulnerabilities.

Malware.Mumawow may come bundled with other malware and ensure that they are executed each time Windows starts. A malicious Trojan horse or Bot may represent a higher security risk for the compromised system and/or its network environment.

Accordingly, Malware.Mumawow may be considered a malicious backdoor Trojan infection that runs in the background and allows remote access to the compromised system.

Malware.Mumawow has been seen to display the following behavior:
* The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
* Can make outbound communication to other computers, IM chat rooms and other services using IRC protocols
* This Process Contains User Mode Rootkit Functionality and can hide itself from the running process list
* This process creates other processes on disk
* Includes file creation code which could be used to test for interception by security products
* Opens browser pop ups
* Uses DNS to retrieve the IP address for web sites
* Uses reverse DNS to retrieve the host names on IP addresses
* Uses your PC to connect to Chat rooms
* This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
* Adds products to the system registry
* Executes Processes stored in Temporary Folders
* Executes a Process
* Writes to another Process\'s Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)

The best thing to do to rid any computer system of the presence of Malware.Mumawow and all its components, would be to employ the services of a fully functional and up to date, not to mention legitimate antispyware tool.