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Spyware Firehole Information
Name: Firehole Category: Probing Tool Date: 2004-02-07 Author: Robin Keir Dangerous: Yes

Firehole belongs to Probing Tool spyware category.
It's presense means that your computer is infected with malicious software and is insecure.

Firehole description by Robin Keir:

from the web site: ´FireHole uses default web explorer to transmit information to a remote host. To do this, it installs a DLL file (with interception funciton inside) on user´s computer. After, this DLL loads itself to be in same process space than program aimed, here a trusted one, so FireHole has great probability to access the Internet takethly. If the test is a succcess, this means 2 things: your firewall doesn´t control programs that launch others, & is additionally vulnerable to DLL injection.´
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