123srv.com

123srv.com is an advertising tracker domain that analyzes the audiences of its affiliate advertisers to provide general information on click-through rates. Although traffic-monitoring is a common practice that's neither illegal nor threatening, malware researchers have seen some recent cases of 123srv.com's advertisements being promoted through adware and similarly unwanted software. Removing 123srv.com adware and other, equally useless software is both a matter of good browser performance and good online security, and using anti-adware or anti-malware procedures will provide the best promise of safe browser interactivity afterward.

When there's an Adware Go-Between in Your Browser

123srv.com is an intermediary website that interposes itself between advertising content and that content's viewer for the sake of tracking Web traffic. Some e-privacy enthusiasts prefer to block such domains to protect their online history, but, that aside, 123srv.com is no more threatening to your PC than any site associated with a wide range of advertisers. On the other hand, malware experts must regrettably warn PC users that newly-identified Potentially Unwanted Programs have been found to promote 123srv.com through disadvantageous browser modifications.

These modifications have been targeted specifically at the Chrome browser, which is strongly indicative of there being few or no variants of this PUP. Symptoms within Chrome browser inevitably show themselves as additional, unwanted pop-up tabs for 123srv.com and its related advertisements. These tabs appear automatically, although usually only after the user already has attempted to navigate to an unrelated Web page. Other sites that malware researchers also have seen 123srv.com adware promoting include oclktrk.com and a sub-domain of icmwebserv.com.

Serving Yourself a Way out of Being Served 123srv.com Advertisements

123srv.com acquires its advertisements from a hefty quantity of diverse affiliates, and there are no guarantees that third parties will not exploit 123srv.com's advertisements to cause harm to your PC, either directly or indirectly. Malware researchers frequently see advertisement-based attacks on these networks, which may include fake software updates that install threatening software, as well as attempts to collect information through misleading requests. Routine browser maintenance, therefore, calls for removing 123srv.com adware and other advertising software whenever the product does not offer you any reasons to keep it installed.

However, adware developers are well aware that their software often is not wanted, and 123srv.com adware is one of many PUPs with a history of trying to avoid being deleted. For this and other reasons, malware researchers continue to recommend anti-adware products for deleting any 123srv.com add-on that causes the aforementioned 'new tab' pop-ups. Browsers besides Chrome might remain unaffected, but adware may continue to cause security problems as long as it is avoided or ignored instead of being uninstalled completely.

123srv.com's adware campaign seems to have begun in earnest in the early months of 2014 and have been ongoing in April. This fact makes updating your security software particularly helpful for detecting 123srv.com adware with proper accuracy.