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Spyware/FirstLook

Alias: FirstLook

Description: Spyware/FirstLook is designed to gather information about user's behaviour, by spying his browser activity. Spyware/FirstLook can also provide the attacker information about your computer, what URL are you linked to, your CPU speed, and even IP address.

Threat type:

Spyware - Spyware is any software application that gathers information from the user's PC and transmits it to the Spyware author (usually hackers, but sometimes corporations). The information is gathered and transmitted without the user's knowledge or consent. Spyware applications may steal sensitive corporate information and transmit it to competitors. Spyware also degrades PC performance and can consume huge amounts of bandwidth, especially on corporate servers.

Advice: Remove This is a very high risk threat and should be removed immediately as to prevent harm to your computer and / or to protect your privacy.

Detection:
SpyNoMore removes Spyware/FirstLook: Yes

Threat risk: Medium Risk

Potentially dangerous malware. May collect sensitive user information and broadcast data back to a server with "opt-out" permission. Category includes most adware programs.

Symptoms:

Spyware/FirstLook takes and sends out screenshots of user activity.

Spyware/FirstLook connects itself to the internet.

Spyware/FirstLook hides from the user and stays resident in background.

Spyware/FirstLook Signature Details: The following information includes some of the standard signatures associated with this spyware threat. Please do not attempt to manually remove these items from your computer; Removing these items incorrectly or partially can cause your computer to experience critical errors, prevent your computer from restarting or cause loss of Internet connectivity. Should you be infected with Spyware/FirstLook, you can clean your computer by downloading SpyNoMore now.

Running Process Signatures:
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File Signatures:
%PROGRAM_FILES%\firstlook\firstlook.exe

Registered Dll (Dynamic Link Library) Signatures:
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Folder Signatures:
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Registry Signatures:
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SpyNoMore Collected Residual File Signatures:
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