Trojan.FireAnvil

Trojan.FireAnvil is a detection of a particular release of the commercial product Firehand Ember v5.2.3 by Firehand Technologies Corporation. The detection affects two files: Ember32.exe and Fireutil.dll. These files contain built-in functionality that may lead to complete data corruption on a partition on which Windows is installed.

As of September 12, 2002, the download currently available from the Firehand Technologies Corporation website does not have this Trojan functionality.

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version September 11, 2002
• Latest Rapid Release version August 20, 2008 revision 017
• Initial Daily Certified version September 11, 2002
• Latest Daily Certified version August 20, 2008 revision 016
• Initial Weekly Certified release date September 11, 2002

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Threat Assessment

Wild

• Wild Level: Low
• Number of Infections: 0 - 49
• Number of Sites: 0 - 2
• Geographical Distribution: Low
• Threat Containment: Easy
• Removal: Easy

Damage

• Damage Level: High

Distribution

• Distribution Level: Low