Ads.heias.com

Ads.heias.com is an advertising company that's widely-used in websites for certain German media sites, although some English sites have also been known to use advertisements from Ads.heias.com. Although Ads.heias.com is a more-or-less legitimate company, malware researchers have consider that its advertisements have a poor history for PC safety and may sometimes be exploited to install low-level PC threats, including adware. If you see Ads.heias.com-related redirects or other unusual web content, you should check the websites you visit to make sure that they're not compromised. Repeated Ads.heias.com-related content throughout a range of unrelated sites tends to be indicative of your PC being infected by a minor PC threat, and SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend that you remove such infections with anti-malware software as a habitual safety procedure.

When Ads.heias.com's Ads Start Appearing without Rhyme or Reason

Because Ads.heias.com is a simple advertisement server that's devoted to displaying advertisements for commercial purposes, you're unlikely to find any reason to visit Ads.heias.com or be linked straight to Ads.heias.com itself. As such, contact with Ads.heias.com usually begins with a visit to an unrelated website that happens to host advertisements by Ads.heias.com through banners, pop-ups and other methods. While Ads.heias.com is widely in use for the websites of various German magazines, English sites like mmo-champion.com have also been known to use Ads.heias.com's advertising services to generate revenue.

Normally, advertisements from Ads.heias.com will display themselves without any problems. However, because Ads.heias.com's mixed history of content delivery includes some inadvertent malware attacks, such as the delivery of a malicious JavaScript, you may occasionally see instances where Ads.heias.com attempts to download or launch a program. You should inform the website in question of this compromise in the advertising network, and SpywareRemove.com malware experts also suggest that you inspect your PC with an anti-malware scanner afterward, just to be safe. Drive-by-download attacks that can be launched through advertisements tend to occur without symptoms, although, so far, Ads.heias.com's advertisements have only been seen being exploited for low-level risks like adware.

Choosing the Ads You Want without Ads.heias.com Getting in Your Way

If you've decided that you'd prefer to live without Ads.heias.com-based security risks in your web-browsing experience, SpywareRemove.com malware research team can recommend a number of browse-based defenses to protect your PC from advertisement-delivered attacks. The easiest of these safeguards include:

• Blocking Java, JavaScript and Flash by default. Allowing these scripts to run automatically is a significant vulnerability for your browser, although you may choose to enable them selectively when a site's content requires it.
• Updating your browser and all other relevant software, which will eliminate many identified security flaws.
• Possessing anti-malware programs that include active threat detection/protection, which should be able to block Ads.heias.com-derived attacks even if they begin to launch successfully.

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