VoiceFive Survey Pop-Up

The 'VoiceFive Survey' pop-up is a symptom of a browser hijacker that modifies your browser for various financially lucrative purposes – but not for its victims. Besides having histories of accompanying various browser performance-related issues, the 'VoiceFive Survey' pop-up also is associated with a little-known survey company that most likely is engaged in phishing tactics, along with the potential distribution of threats. Because the latest analysis of the VoiceFive company's site has revealed potentially threatening Web content, you should strive to avoid contact with the 'VoiceFive Survey' pop-up, and malware experts suggest using anti-malware tools to remove the browser hijackers that launch these attacks.

The Voice that Insists on Making Itself Heard

The VoiceFive company, while marketing itself as a legitimate survey business that specializes in gathering customer demographics, is rich with an unpleasant history of failing to pay out survey rewards, being promoted by the attacks of browser-modifying PC threats and being related to general browser performance issues. The 'VoiceFive Survey' pop-up is the most iconic of these issues, which often is loaded by as-of-yet-unidentified variants of threatening software. At this time, malware researchers would recommend against filling out the surveys in these pop-ups, which show the classic traits of attempting to track confidential information through social engineering-based phishing hoaxes.

The 'VoiceFive Survey' pop-up also runs the risk of exposing you to other hazards. The latest scans of the voicefive.com domain have identified potentially threatening JavaScript redirects disguised as software uninstaller files. These redirects could be used to install other threats onto your PC or expose you to other misleading tactics, along with the 'VoiceFive Survey' pop-up.

Finally, malware researchers find that most 'VoiceFive Survey' pop-up attacks also are related to other Trojan browser attacks. These may include:

• Poor website loading times.
• Random requests for the voicefive.com domain.
• An inability to access some popular e-mail websites, such as the Yahoo Mail.
• Random audio advertisements.

Silencing the Voice Telling You to Take Surveys

The browser hijackers responsible for the 'VoiceFive Survey' pop-up's campaigns have been active for several years, with confirmed attacks for Internet Explorer and Firefox. Common 'business models' for similar attacks tend to require that the victim be tricked into giving up personal information willingly, and then delivering excuses for why promised rewards fail to materialize. However, a 'VoiceFive Survey' pop-up also has indirect ties to the distribution of PUPs, and, as such, should be considered a potential threat, even if you don't fill out its surveys.

Malware researchers still are analyzing the estimated sources of the 'VoiceFive Survey' pop-ups, which may be included alongside other attacks. In light of more specific recommendations, any PC that experiences the symptoms described in this article should be scanned with anti-malware utilities that have proven records against browser hijackers and all similar PC threats. Due to voicefive.com's history of disguising potentially toxic files as uninstallation tools, installing or uninstalling software through voicefive.com's recommended solutions is especially discouraged.