Win32autorun.zg

Win32autorun.zg is a harmful Windows platform worm infection. Win32autorun.zg tends to be a virus-like malware application, with destructive codes.

Worm infections are highly capable of mutating, replacing their own code by themselves, and are extremely difficult to find and remove from any infected system. Win32autorun.zg is no exception – it will hide itself and may further propagate itself onto a network of systems, if given half the chance.

Win32autorun.zg will not copy itself into the file attachment to infect the emails; instead it is accompanied by a component which is able to download other malicious programs via the Internet.

Once embedded within a computer system, Win32autorun.zg will continue to send infected messages to all the email addresses harvested from the victims’ machine.
Worms like Win32autorun.zg tend to install itself onto a computer system, employing Rootkit tactics, this way ensuring it remains hidden from all spyware detectors (legitimate ones).

Possible properties of Win32autorun.zg are as follows:
- Win32autorun.zg is able to terminate a range of processes, and to delete services related to antivirus solutions and firewalls.
- Win32autorun.zg main executable file will download other malicious programs from the remote malicious user’s site and install them to the victim machine.
- Win32autorun.zg will search all files on the hard disk for email addresses, and send them to the remote malicious user\'s site.

Win32autorun.zg tends to be distributed along the following channels: via emails, malicious web pages, Inter Relay Chat channels (IRC) and some peer-to-peer networks.
Win32autorun.zg will then deploy a damaging payload, which may delete files and may terminate security related files too.

Win32autorun.zg is also highly capable of downloading additional malware onto the infected computer system, usually from a remote internet website, which is ultimately executed on a local system.

It is important to bear in mind that Win32autorun.zg has a number of varying functions – all of which are aimed at compromising the infected computer system, the user’s privacy and challenging the integrity of the computer itself.

Another function Win32autorun.zg has been designed to implement is that Win32autorun.zg is known to use backdoor techniques to infiltrate a computer system, and remain undetected whilst embedded within the system, this way it can carry out its malicious intent - undeterred.

Win32autorun.zg will ensure that it disables the use of the security programs installed in the infected system, will open up obscure connections, in order to ensure access from a remote controller. Win32autorun.zg may also self-mutate, in order to avoid detection and the removal of its executables.

One should ensure that a fully functional and reliable anti-spyware application is installed on the infected computer system. This way you will be able to deal with this threat, and remove Win32autorun.zg and all its components from the infected system.