Survey Prize Center

Survey Prize Center is a fake prize-granting website that uses a combination of deceptive pop-ups and browser hijackers to lure you into using Survey Prize Center's fraudulent survey opportunities. Although Survey Prize Center says that Survey Prize Center offers great prizes for incredibly easy tasks, SywareRemove.com malware researchers have looked over Survey Prize Center's history and failed to find a single instance of verifiable prize-transaction. Once Survey Prize Center has you hooked, Survey Prize Center's true interest is to make you fill out surveys so that Survey Prize Center can steal confidential information and use you to inflate traffic for its advertisements. If you find that your browser is being redirected to Survey Prize Center's website, you may have a browser hijacker infection that should be removed by an appropriate anti-malware scanner.

Survey Prize Center's Underhanded Approach to Information Theft

Survey Prize Center's surveyprizecenter.com, like many other websites that offer fraudulent services (including couponalert.com, resulturl.com, 100ksearches.com or antivirea.com), promotes itself in large part by using pop-ups at websites with poor security for their banner and pop-up advertisement. Advertisements from Survey Prize Center try to catch your attention immediately by promising that you've won or are eligible to win extremely valuable prizes, such as iPhone or iPad products.

Sadly, these prizes are as fake as everything else about Survey Prize Center, which hasn't been confirmed to have given out any of the valuable products that Survey Prize Center waves in your face in the form of bait. If you're lured into Survey Prize Center's trap, though, you may not realize your misstep until it's too late and your private information is already in Survey Prize Center's tight grip.

Survey Prize Center cloaks its information-stealing and phishing attempts in a harmless-seeming survey that asks for personal information, such as your email address, home address, phone number or Social Security number. Once you give this information away, the criminals behind Survey Prize Center are quite happy to use them for identity theft and other crimes. If you've made this mistake, you should contact the appropriate authorities to prevent any future misuse that may be headed towards you.

Survey Prize Center's Invasive Fall-Back Plan

Survey Prize Center isn't happy to rely on bad marketing as its sole method of stealing your information, however. SywareRemove.com malware research team has also found a variety of browser hijacker-based attacks that are linked to Survey Prize Center's surveyprizecenter.com. In addition to that, surveyprizecenter.com has, by itself, been confirmed to host malicious software upon occasion that may also lead to browser hijacks, pop-ups, theft of confidential information or other PC attacks.

Browser hijacks can redirect you to surveyprizecenter.com at any time, but SywareRemove.com malware researchers have observed that they prefer to trigger after you attempt to use popular search engines, including Google.

To protect yourself from potential Survey Prize Center infections, the following tactics have been found to be effective:

• Disable scripts, such as Flash or Java, for websites and advertisements that you don't trust. This will prevent Survey Prize Center's fake advertisement from displaying themselves and may also stop drive-by-download attacks that can result in browser hijackers.
• Avoid surveyprizecenter.com and other websites that have a confirmed history of poor repute; similar websites that sell fake products and services include findgala.com, malware-defender.com, antivirok.com and gahsoft.com. Before you trust any website with money or private information, consider looking up its history with trustworthy site-ranking organizations.
• If you've been infected by a browser hijacker that redirects you to Survey Prize Center, your PC is also at risk with respect to other infections and attacks. The recommended technique to remove a Survey Prize Center infection is to use a dedicated anti-malware application in Safe Mode, which is accessible on any Windows computer.