The file firelm01.sys, known as McAfee HIP Content Driver, is a driver file that belongs to software McAfee Host Intrusion Protection from McAfee. This security solution for desktops provides protection against complex security threats that may be unintentionally introduced or allowed by users of desktops and laptops. It provides comprehensive protection through three layers of security that includes signature analysis, behavioral analysis, and a dynamic firewall. Laptops and desktops are protected against intrusions against known and emerging threats, including zero-day attacks. Users of the Host Intrusion Protection are provided with automatic updates that are delivered to target specific vulnerabilities and block threats like buffer overflow attacks. This security solution has customized security control that applies different levels of protection based on user location, whether in a corporate network, VPN, or public network. McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI), which is a comprehensive cloud-based threat intelligence service, provides enhance security.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. firelm01.sys. is used by McAffee Host Intrusion Protection, If you shut down firelm01.sys, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop firelm01.sys, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is McAffee Host Intrusion Protection, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed firelm01.sys

A process usually a part of an installed application such as McAffee Host Intrusion Protection, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if firelm01.sys. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that firelm01.sys, belongs to, in this case McAffee Host Intrusion Protection