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Posted: February 5, 2014

Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com is a week-old Web domain that recently has been involved in advertising content traditionally associated with phishing attacks and other online tactics. Although not all content from Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com may be toxic to your PC, malware researchers recommend avoiding contact with Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com and avoiding giving up any personal information that could be exploited through Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com-promoted surveys or other forms. Automatic redirects to Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com by your browser may be symptomatic of an infection that should be assuaged by updated anti-malware tools.

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Though Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com was just barely in existence six days ago, Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com has already given itself a reputation for dabbling in disreputable business practices that may be indicative of ties to unsafe elements. Pop-ups related to Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com, most often 'free prize' offers for the Tesco supermarket chain and other British companies, bear all the earmarks of phishing attacks that are intended to encourage PC users to give privileged information away in exchange for nothing.

Types of information often sought by such phishing sites may include phone numbers, e-mail addresses, street addresses, credit card data and a variety of account passwords. Besides requesting privileged information, Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com also may redirect you to legitimate surveys that have no rewards or promote fraudulent products, such as fake Registry cleaners. In most cases, the dangers of contact with Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com and other phishing sites are entirely related to how extensive the victim's interaction with them is, and how much information they give up voluntarily.

Malware experts haven't confirmed any form of marketing on Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com's behalf to funnel traffic to itself. Naturally, adware, browser hijackers and other low-level threats to your PCs are the primary methods by which you'll end up face-to-face with a Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com pop-up. Distribution methods for these potentially unsafe browser add-ons haven't been identified, although most similar forms of unwanted software may use bundling installers that are widely distributed throughout various free software websites.

Pulling Your Browser out of a Contest to Confide with Criminals

Because Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com is an extremely new Web domain, the above details regarding Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com must be considered a temporarily incomplete analysis. Additional PC threats also may be associated with Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com, and most anti-malware vendors have yet to identify Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com as a compromised domain. Updating all appropriate security programs and avoiding software-downloading sources with poor safety histories continue to be your best protection against Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com and software that could redirect you towards Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com.

Minimizing your interaction with Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com pop-ups will help prevent identity theft and other crimes that often are linked with similar phishing traps. However, removing the software responsible for generating a recurring Weekly-contest.myservey-prizerewardzs.com pop-up also is important for your PC's long term well-being. Although this should be possible for any competent anti-malware program, malware researchers always emphasize the necessity of keeping your software updated when dealing with these recently-identified PC threats.

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