{"id":2328,"date":"2014-10-23T20:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T20:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:56","slug":"remove-surveygenieonline-com-pop-up-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-surveygenieonline-com-pop-up-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove surveygenieonline.com Pop-Up Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you just get a new tab or a <strong>pop-up<\/strong> from\u00a0<strong>surveygenieonline.com<\/strong> that managed to leak through your browser&#8217;s pop-up blocker, or did you get redirected to\u00a0<strong>surveygenieonline.com<\/strong> from the web page you were browsing? It&#8217;s possible that you have some adware installed on your machine that launched the \u00a0<strong>surveygenieonline.com surveys<\/strong>. I&#8217;ll try to help you <strong>remove the\u00a0surveygenieonline.com pop-ups<\/strong> in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few screenshots of the\u00a0<strong>surveygenieonline.com<\/strong> surveys that I got on my lab machine. They all have the country as a subdomain, in my case that&#8217;s sweden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sweden.surveygenieonline.com-pop-up-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sweden.surveygenieonline.com-pop-up-2.png\" alt=\"sweden.surveygenieonline.com pop-up 2\" width=\"507\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sweden.surveygenieonline.com-pop-up-2.png 507w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sweden.surveygenieonline.com-pop-up-2-300x111.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-pop-up-survey.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-pop-up-survey.png\" alt=\"surveygenieonline.com pop-up survey\" width=\"693\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-pop-up-survey.png 693w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-pop-up-survey-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-pop-up.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-pop-up.png\" alt=\"surveygenieonline.com pop-up\" width=\"274\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-firefox-survey.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-firefox-survey.png\" alt=\"surveygenieonline.com firefox survey\" width=\"471\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-firefox-survey.png 471w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-firefox-survey-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of these appeared in Mozilla Firefox, but you will most likely have the same problem if you are browsing the web with Google Chrome or Microsoft Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>I recently started to examine what\u00a0advertisements adware are showing to the users. I think its important to talk about these pop-ups and surveys since it&#8217;s usually the first sign the user sees after getting\u00a0the adware. In my case, I&#8217;ve installed a few adwares on my lab machine and now I&#8217;m closely following and documenting the ads that appear.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, these surveys appears in a new tab while you are browsing the web. They often try to make it appear as the survey was initiated by the site you were browsing, by mentioning the domain name. That happened to me too, as you can see in the screenshots above, they mention the www.freefixer.com site which was the site I was currently browsing. The surveys sometimes claim that you will be compensated for completing it. That also happened here, where one of the surveys said it would give me a price worth 400 SEK.<\/p>\n<p>Something that&#8217;s interesting is the amount of traffic the\u00a0<strong>surveygenieonline.com<\/strong> web site it getting. Just check out the traffic rank from Alexa. Rank 12500 means that its getting a lot of traffic. So you are probably not the only one\u00a0getting these surveys \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-traffic-rank1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-traffic-rank1.png\" alt=\"surveygenieonline.com traffic rank\" width=\"583\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-traffic-rank1.png 583w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/surveygenieonline.com-traffic-rank1-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what is required to remove\u00a0<strong>surveygenieonline.com?<\/strong>\u00a0Well, in my case, I had three adwares installed on my machine. They were <a title=\"Browser Warden Ads \u2013 Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-browser-warden\/\">Browser Warden<\/a>, <a title=\"Ads By BlockAndSurf \u2013 Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/ads-by-blockandsurf-removal\/\">BlockAndSurf<\/a>, <a title=\"TinyWallet \u2013 Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-tinywallet\/\">TinyWallet<\/a>. One of them were responsible for the pop-ups. I removed those three with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> and the\u00a0<strong>surveygenieonline.com<\/strong> surveys were gone. The problem is that the\u00a0<strong>surveygenieonline.com<\/strong> surveys can be launched by many variants of adware, so if you don&#8217;t have any of the three adwares mentioned above, you might have dig in a little deeper to track down the unwanted software.<\/p>\n<p>If you had\u00a0to remove something else,\u00a0in addition to the 3 adwares I mentioned above, please post a comment below to help other users that are struggling in the same situation.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you just get a new tab or a pop-up from\u00a0surveygenieonline.com that managed to leak through your browser&#8217;s pop-up blocker, or did you get redirected to\u00a0surveygenieonline.com from the web page you were browsing? It&#8217;s possible that you have some adware installed on your machine that launched the \u00a0surveygenieonline.com surveys. I&#8217;ll try to help you remove &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-surveygenieonline-com-pop-up-surveys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove surveygenieonline.com Pop-Up Surveys<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}