Consumers-survey-group.org

Consumers-survey-group.org is a survey site that may collect private information or attempt to gather non-personal information for its own profit. Although no PC security institutions to date have classified Consumers-survey-group.org as a threatening site, malware researchers find heavy indications of Consumers-survey-group.org's possible involvement with survey hoaxes and other misleading pop-ups. Since advertising software may promote Consumers-survey-group.org content, removing your Consumers-survey-group.org adware with appropriate security solutions should remove any related Consumers-survey-group.org pop-ups.

Consumers-survey-group.org and the Surveys that Spring from Every Site

Consumers-survey-group.org is a website that shows common symptoms of being used in tactics that collect information under the guise of offering surveys. Many, but not all of these survey hoaxes are symptomatic of the installation of separate adware programs, which may make changes to your browser to display advertisements. Symptoms related to Consumers-survey-group.org adware include injected advertisement hyperlinks for unrelated website text, as well as recurring Consumers-survey-group.org pop-ups. Because they're the results of external modifications to your browser's settings and content displays, both advertisements and pop-ups, ignore any advertisement or pop-up blocking features built into the Web browser, itself.

Although malware researchers found no evidence of Consumers-survey-group.org being used to host threatening scripts or other malware-distributing threats, Consumers-survey-group.org pop-ups do show clear symptoms common to online misleading tactics. Typical pop-ups for Consumers-survey-group.org surveys always will misrepresent themselves as being provided by the website you're visiting, such as a fake Facebook-sponsored survey while browsing Facebook.com. These fake survey indicators may persist over a wide range of diverse sites, including search engines and domains affiliated with major companies besides social networking services. Entering any information for Consumers-survey-group.org surveys may allow third parties access to it, resulting in compromises of accounts or identity credentials.

Keeping Your Browser from being Swallowed by a Consumers Survey Tactic

Consumers-survey-group.org pop-up campaigns have been ongoing since 2013, at a minimum, although discrepancies in its registration may indicate that it has changed ownership since that time. Consumers-survey-group.org adware may be installed to Internet Explorer, but similar campaigns from unrelated adware may target most other browsers of any meaningful popularity. Seeing Consumers-survey-group.org pop-ups or unusual advertisement hyperlinks may be symptoms that should prompt immediate scans of your PC by anti-adware utilities.

The actual installation of adware interested in promoting Consumers-survey-group.org's 'survey' pop-up may favor automatic methods of installation – preventing the computer user from being aware that the installation has occurred. Although software bundles from free downloads are one of the most common ways a Potentially Unwanted Program may make its way to your browser, Consumers-survey-group.org adware also may be installed by Trojans and other, equally harmful threat.

As a precaution, information given to a Consumers-survey-group.org survey should be assumed as potentially compromised and open to exploitation by third parties. Affected computer users should change passwords and contact relevant authorities, such as banks or credit card companies, to make them aware of this lapse in their online security.