Name: 123Mania Category: Adware Advice: Remove Risk: Elevated Risk Elevated threats are usually threats that fall into the range of adware in which data about a user's habits are tracked and sent back to a server for analysis without your consent or knowledge. Description: 123Mania is a sidebar search hijacker, address bar search hijacker and adware. 123Mania consists of one advertising DLL set to run at Windows start time, and one search hijacker DLL (providing an explorer bar and URLSearchHook). Both DLLs are also Internet Explorer Browser Helper Objects. 123Mania is nstalled by ActiveX drive-by-download, suspected to be triggered by pop-up ads. Also bundled with Matrix's NTP client at internet-time.com. 123Mania opens up an HTML application (mshta.exe) that spawns untargeted pop-ups from 123mania.com mirrors kidsmk.com, rgwuio.com, semcmm.com, dcfgsd.com and prsdvb.com. Type: Adware - Adware is generally software that displays advertisements. Some advertisers may covertly install adware on your system and generate a stream of unsolicited advertisements that can clutter your desktop and affect your productivity. The advertisements may also contain pornographic or other material that you might find inappropriate. The extra processing required to track you or to display advertisements can tax your computer and hurt your system performance.