Adsdelivery1.com

Adsdelivery1.com is a fake advertising domain that may distribute threats through a combination of software exploits and intentionally mislabeled file downloads. Since malware analysts have verified that the Adsdelivery1.com has hosted content that may attack vulnerable PCs automatically, even trivial contact with Adsdelivery1.com may be taken to be a reasonable prompt for using anti-malware solutions to scan your machine. Probable payloads from Adsdelivery1.com may include other high-level threats that may allow third parties to have an egregious level of access to an infected PC.

Adsdelivery1.com: the Site that Delivers More Than Just Advertisements to Your Browser

Although waning in prominence since the arrest of the Blackhole Exploit Kit's developer, exploit kits continue to be a widely-distributed and effective means of downloading and installing threatening software. However, before they may attack your computer, exploit kits require a website as a host, at which point Adsdelivery1.com comes into play. Adsdelivery1.com may be used to distribute fake Flash updates and other pop-up-oriented content while pretending to be a legitimate advertisement-trafficking site. Like most, similar attacks, these Flash pop-ups are designed to look like legitimate Adobe-brand update notifications. These updates may appear on websites already featuring threatening or unsafe content, or, alternately, generated by browser-hijacking threats.

Adsdelivery1.com currently hosts a variant of the Neosploit Exploit Kit, AKA the Fiesta Toolkit. ZeroAccess is one of the most noteworthy PC threats to be installed by this exploit kit, and may hijack search results, disable essential security features or install other threats freely. Accordingly, PCs that load Adsdelivery1.com in their browsers should be isolated and scanned for potential infections, even if the PC user has refused to download the Adsdelivery1.com pop-up's 'Flash update' package.

Stamping Adsdelivery1.com with Return to Sender

Malware researchers might point to Adsdelivery1.com as one of the most blatant examples of common threat-misleading techniques being used on the Internet today. In addition to using misinformation to trick victims into installing threats, Adsdelivery1.com also may include automatic means of installing threats onto vulnerable computers. Because exploit kits used by Adsdelivery1.com and reminiscent sites may update their list of vulnerabilities semi-regularly, security patches for all affected programs are recommended, but not foolproof as a defense against these attacks.

In addition to using patches to eliminate security vulnerabilities as the relevant companies identify them, you also might consider using anti-malware protection for your browser and disabling scripts for all untrusted sites. Doing so will provide preemptive protection from Adsdelivery1.com, which may be substantially simpler than removing Sirefef or similar threats after an attack has succeeded.