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Web.mavericksmithcollection.com

Posted: October 4, 2013

Web.mavericksmithcollection.com is an advertising site that's known to promote questionable products and services, including some domains affiliated with Potentially Unwanted Programs, adware and various low-level PC threats. As long as you avoid installing software through Web.mavericksmithcollection.com, your PC is unlikely to be greatly affected by its advertising campaign. However, if Web.mavericksmithcollection.com pop-ups recur without rhyme or reason, or your PC shows suspicious behavior after any interaction with Web.mavericksmithcollection.com's advertisements, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers strongly endorse using anti-malware applications to disable and delete any threat that may have used Web.mavericksmithcollection.com as its means of distribution.

Web.mavericksmithcollection.com: a Maverick of Online Advertising

While advertising networks are incredibly numerous and frequently profitable, Web.mavericksmithcollection.com is part of an advertising effort that appears less up front than most, with no content available for visitors nor any marketing directed at acquiring new clients. Despite lacking the traditional trappings of an online advertising network, Web.mavericksmithcollection.com fulfills the same functions as one through its pop-ups, which display content that a small but significant subsection of the PC security industry even has seen fit to label as threatening. There aren't sufficient samples of Web.mavericksmithcollection.com's advertisements currently to give a confident verdict, but it is to recommend all of the standard precautionary steps against advertisements from Web.mavericksmithcollection.com or elsewhere. These steps include:

  • Avoiding giving personal information away, even when it's requested through contests, surveys or prize giveaways. E-mail addresses, phone numbers and street addresses often are harvested through fraudulent advertisements that use these ruses.
  • Avoiding downloading software promoted through Web.mavericksmithcollection.com pop-ups. This includes both original programs and patches for already installed programs.
  • Protecting your browser from automatic download exploits and other attacks by disabling JavaScript, Flash and other features that could be exploited to your detriment.

Dealing with the Maverick and His Kin Before Their Advertisements Deal with Your Computer

Web.mavericksmithcollection.com is one of several new advertising sites that have been under scrutiny recently, all with similar structures and histories of involvement in pop-up-based advertising functions. Some others include Web.westendoflondon.com, Web.coilchocks.com and Web.spayorneuteryourpets.com, which should be treated as untrustworthy sources of advertisements that should be interacted with only in an environment of reasonable browser protection against Web-based PC threats.

Beyond being careful about Web.mavericksmithcollection.com's pop-ups as noted earlier in this text, you also will want to use anti-malware software to delete any adware that creates Web.mavericksmithcollection.com pop-ups regularly and without your permission. Such attacks often are accompanied by other unsafe functions without symptoms as obvious as a pop-up window, and the use of good PC security software to remove Web.mavericksmithcollection.com-affiliated threats is the most positive method to get your browser back to showing only the content that you want in exactly the circumstances that you prefer.

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