123 Mania is an ad ware program - a program that delivers advertisements on the computer system.

Ad ware is any software application in which advertising is displayed while the program is running. The authors of these applications include additional code that delivers the ads which can be viewed through pop up windows or through a bar that appears on the computer screen and sometimes through text links or in integrated search results. Ad ware may or may not track personal information. It may also gather information anonymously or in aggregate only.

123 Mania is a sidebar search hijacker, address bar search hijacker, and ad ware from Matrix Technology network. 123 Mania is a Spanish born ad ware. It consists of one advertising DLL set to run at windows start time and one search hijacker DLL (providing an explorer bar and URL Search Hook). Both DLLS are also Internet Explorer Browser Helper Objects. It auto starts or stays resident, changes browser, opens ports and shows advertisements.

123 Mania does advertising. It opens up an HTML application (mshta.exe) that spawns untargeted pop ups.

The list of products that detect, remove and protect against 123 Mania are Pro User: X-Cleaner, IM - P2P Security Appliance: RTGuardian and Regulatory Compliance: Greynet Enterprise Manager.

Also manual removal instructions are available at

http://allentech.net/parasite/123Mania.html

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