Do you know what Survey Dash is?
Survey Dash is suspicious software advertised on survey-dash.com. It should help users earn some money by taking paid surveys; however, users find out very quickly that it does not do anything very beneficial. We cannot say that it does not do anything at all; however, we are sure that Survey Dash will not help you to earn money as it promises. We will describe how this application works in this article. We are sure that you will decide to delete this application from the system immediately after you finish reading the article. We hope that below-provided instructions will help you to take care of this untrustworthy program.
Survey Dash screenshot
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Survey Dash might really look like a trustworthy piece of software at first glance because its website is quite appealing; however, users can immediately notice different ads on its main page, which is quite suspicious. Of course, this is not surprising for us at all because we know that Survey Dash is an advertising-supported application (adware) and its creator, probably, gets money for driving traffic to partners’ websites. Specialists believe that Survey Dash displays offers and ads as well as redirects to other web pages because of that too.
Researchers have managed to find out that Survey Dash does not even have an interface – it simply opens all kinds of web pages on its main window, for example, premiumpromorewards.com/go/to/2c963f/key/04385ab6547be8308fc9a3e1066fcd2f/aid/13117. Unfortunately, it might also start displaying various pop-ups with various offers and advertisements. Generally speaking, Survey Dash is only going to provide users with offers and redirect them to third-party web pages only. Yes, we do not think that it can help users earn some cash because, as we have told you, it has a completely different purpose.
Specialists say that this advertising-supported application will not only display ads for you and cause redirections, but might also gather information about your browsing activities. It is even interested in the personal information! If you open the Privacy Policy document available on the official website survey-dash.com, you will notice immediately that there are two types of information Survey Dash is interested in:
a) Information you actively choose to provide (e.g. email, address, name, phone number, and birth date).
b) Passive information collected automatically by servers or obtained from third parties (e.g. IP address, pages viewed, the time spent at each web page, etc.)
As Survey Dash collects details about the users’ activities on the web and even personal information, there is a possibility that a user’s privacy might be violated one day. To make sure that this does not happen to you, you should remove the application and install a security tool on your computer. This will help you to make sure that other ad-supported programs cannot sneak onto the computer again.
In order to be able to work properly on your system, Survey Dash will apply several changes. First of all, it creates new registry keys, for example, HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\Survey-Dash.com, HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Survey-Dash.com, and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{EC05EAA0-D36A-4648-B902-7B136BF20292}_is1. Secondly, it will add a folder in the Start menu and will put its shortcut on the Desktop. You will also see its main folder if you go to %PROGRAMFILES% (%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%).
If we have already convinced you to delete Survey Dash from the system, you can do that right away by following our step by step instructions. The manual method might seem to be too complicated for less experienced computer users. If you are one of them, you can delete this adware automatically. Download the SpyHunter antimalware scanner from our web page, upgrade it, and scan the system to erase all the existing infections. It will not only remove threats, but will also protect your PC from future infections.
Delete Survey Dash
Windows XP
- Open the Start menu and go to Control Panel.
- Click Add or Remove Programs.
- Select the undesirable software.
- Click Remove.
Windows 7 and Vista
- Open the Start menu.
- Click Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a program and find the untrustworthy application.
- Click the Uninstall button to delete it.
Windows 8/8.1/10
- Right-click on the lower-left corner.
- Select Control Panel from the menu.
- Go to Uninstall a program.
- Select the untrustworthy application.
- Click Uninstall.
In non-techie terms:
It is known that advertising-supported applications and other similar threats travel in software bundles together with other applications and might enter systems unnoticed. To make sure that this does not happen for you again, you should download programs from trustworthy websites only, carefully install new software, install a reputable security tool, and never click on strange links or ads that appear in front of you.