How to remove Mobile Survey Reward virus

Easy tips for Mobile Survey Reward removal

Mobile Survey Reward is scam promoted by various untrustworthy pages. The scheme states that when you complete a short of survey- you will receive certain type of reward. It must be here emphasized that all such claims made by the scam is false- in actual, users receive no rewards.  It aims to endorse various deceptive and malicious pages. The scam can be promoted on spam emails – it was promoted via fake T-Mobile spam emails during the time of research. In general, the untrustworthy pages accessed via mistyped URLs, redirect caused by intrusive ads or by installed PUAs or potentially unwanted applications.

The Mobile Survey Reward scam requests the users to complete a survey, which is regarding their mobile experience. It promises an exclusive reward on completing the survey. The imaginary price is stated to be worth at least 90 USD. Allegedly, the scheme already distributed 4 million USD to different users. On completing the survey, the users are presented a list of prizes that they can choose. When they attempt to claim a prize, they get redirected to a dubious/ malicious website that poses threat both to the system and personal.

Mobile Survey Reward scam has been observed to be redirecting to various phishing websites. These web-pages are designed to record information entered on it. They target names, addresses, telephone numbers and e mail addresses. The collected data could be sold to third parties, potent crooks or used to craft personalized scams. Furthermore, these pages can offer products for sale and/or for free. Users are usually asked to certain amount of free for that.

Untrustworthy pages commonly use dubious payment gateways that can record financial data like banking account details, credit card info and etc. Scammers use these data to make fraudulent transactions and/or online purchases. These websites usually do not have the products that they advertise. Also, the users may receive the items that are incredibly cheap, counterfeit or dangerous to use or consume. To sum up, on trusting Mobile Survey Reward scam, the users experience severe privacy issues, financial loss, identity theft and other serious problems.

As already said, scam websites are often opened by PUAs. These apps can have different functions. Adware type apps deliver intrusive ads that diminish the browsing quality and endanger the device/ user safety. Upon being clicked, they often open various unreliable/ malicious pages and some can download/ install unwanted apps without users’ consent. Browser hijackers type PUAs modifies browsers’ settings – in order to promote fake search engines. The promoted web searchers do not generate their own search results and so they redirect to Google, Bing or Yahoo or other legit web searchers.

What’s more, PUAs can track data. The information of the interest includes IP addresses, Search queries, Viewed pages, URLs visited, ISP, Geo-locations and etc. The collected data is then monetized by being shared with and/or sold to third parties. Therefore, to ensure the device integrity and personal safety, all suspicious applications and browser extensions, plug-ins and add-ons should be removed right away from detection.

How did PUAs infiltrate my system?

PUAs can have official promotional/ download pages. These apps can also be distributed through the download/ installation setups of regular programs. The false marketing method of packing one app with unwanted and malicious additions – is termed as software bundling. Rushed the download and skipped most of the installation steps often increase the inadvertently downloading/ installation of unwanted apps. Intrusive ads can cause PUAs download/ installation as well. Once clicked on, they execute certain scripts to make stealthy download/ installation.

Full text presented on Mobile Survey Reward scam page:

Over $4,000,000 in Offers given out so far!

Mobile Survey

May 03, 2021 Flag

Take Survey Today and get a $90 promo reward

Congratulations!

Please tell us about your Mobile experiences, and as a thank you, you can select from several exclusive offer rewards!

This offer is available for today only: May 03, 2021.

Take Survey Now

How to prevent PUAs installation?

It is advised to research software before download/ installation and/or purchase. Additionally, all downloads must be performed using official and verified sources. Untrustworthy downloading channels such as unofficial and free file hosting sites, p2p networks and other third-party downloaders- often offer dubious and/or bundled content. Download/ installation processes should have to be treated with care. Always read all terms, study possible option, use Custom/Advanced settings and manually opt out all additionally attached apps and decline all offers. Intrusive ads on any shady pages should not be clicked, as well. They often open various untrustworthy pages or sometimes cause unwanted downloads by running certain scripts.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Mobile Survey Reward:

Remove the related items of Mobile Survey Reward using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Mobile Survey Reward issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Mobile Survey Reward) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Mobile Survey Reward removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Mobile Survey Reward still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Mobile Survey Reward plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Mobile Survey Reward removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Mobile Survey Reward (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.