Is voicefive.com Safe?

Jerks, I got a pop up for this in Firefox. Added to my /etc/hosts file

About VoiceFive VoiceFive, a comScore, Inc. company, is a leading global market research company that studies and reports on Internet trends and behavior. VoiceFive is routinely commissioned to conduct research on numerous topics of concern to industry leaders in diverse fields, including travel, pharmaceuticals, and publishing. VoiceFive conducts its research through a variety of methods: Online Surveys : Participants are invited to share their opinions with us on a variety of topics Private Market Research Communities : Select groups are asked to join these special panels and install research software on their computers allowing their online browsing and purchasing behavior (including the content of all web pages) to be monitored We protect the anonymity and privacy of all of our research participants, in accordance with leading privacy regulations. VoiceFive does not provide personally identifiable information (PII) about research participants to our clients, and we do not deliver – or facilitate the delivery of – advertising messages to survey participants. https://www.voicefive.com/Home.aspx

FYI - on Privacy - - 1. US+EU Safe Harbor compliance: self-certified by *****. 2. Provides option to Opt-out from surveys while on Google. This option does not work unless their cookie(s?) be retained on your browser. Since they obviously do log the individual person's IP, why cannot they simply screen in their server, not to address your IP? For the many of us who do not take our PC out of office or home, this would let us more thoroughly avoid tracking by cookies, and only those who roam a lot would need to carry a cookie everywhere, IMHO. 3. Cookie must be separately accepted and retained on each installed browser even though IP address is the same. 4. I do not recall having agreed to take part in any survey from this outfit. Especially in the past week, since I repaired (installed) Windows 8.0 from my internal drive's D:\ {RECOVERY} partition, and Windows Update then downloaded and installed at least 148 of Microsoft®'s "Important" patches and updates starting only a week ago. Yet, in my Windows 8 PC, my AVG Internet Security app helped me to find this co.'s cookie including their domain name, possibly itself a tracking cookie, in a hidden - not a visible - subfolder, in path C:\Users\me (my admin UA) \AppData\Local\Paxkages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_(gibberish,13characters)\AC which has 4 subfolders visible in the directory tree in Windows Explorer, that is, the file explorer, explorer.exe. But the tracking cookie was not in any of the 4 subfolders. There is this invisible subfolder, that must be typed into the Location slot in Windows Explorer. I clicked in the slot and inserted the typewriter cursor at the end right after the ...\AC, and appended to the above path, the following exactly - - \INetCookies then hit the Enter key or click the "goto" arrow in the slot, and Explorer displayed a number of cookies to my view, that were dropped there by this and other websites. It may be that not all of these were tracking cookies. This subfolder was invisible even though my settings in this admin User Account included Show hidden files and folders, intentionally. I guess that this path was created by Windows 8 and Microsoft® Internet Explorer 10 in cooperation with Voicefive.com and Google, etc. 6. Possibly also of interest, in the Security tab of the Properties sheet for the above hidden subfolder, and that for its parent \AC subfolder, identified a very strange, oerhaps a threatening, user name, that was given Full control privileges. This user name was as follows - - "AccountUnknown(S-1-15-2-2551677095- ..." and the dash there was followed by six more strings of 10 randomized digits each, the 10-digit strings being demarcated by a dash between adjacent 10-digit strings, and a closing parenthesis character immediately following the final digit of the sixth string. Where this Unknown User came from, perhaps only God or the NSA (or Google?) knows ...

I don't know if this website is malicious but its annoying as hel! i keep getting popups telling me to participate in there survey its called ar.voicefive.com and i ran malwarebytesPRO, hitmanPRO, My antivirus and everything none of these work to this day i still have the popup does anyone know a solution to this adware

I know very little about the services offered except that their scripts do not seem to be linked to the display of their client's web content. As always, I prefer not to allow scripts not related to web content to be run. From their website: About VoiceFive VoiceFive, a comScore, Inc. company, is a leading global market research company that studies and reports on Internet trends and behavior. VoiceFive is routinely commissioned to conduct research on numerous topics of concern to industry leaders in diverse fields, including travel, pharmaceuticals, and publishing. VoiceFive conducts its research through a variety of methods: Online Surveys: Participants are invited to share their opinions with us on a variety of topics Private Market Research Communities: Select groups are asked to join these special panels and install research software on their computers allowing their online browsing and purchasing behavior (including the content of all web pages) to be monitored We protect the anonymity and privacy of all of our research participants, in accordance with leading privacy regulations. VoiceFive does not provide personally identifiable information (PII) about research participants to our clients, and we do not deliver – or facilitate the delivery of – advertising messages to survey participants.

The page "voicefive.com/Privacy.aspx" allows one to opt out of receiving any further voicefive surveys. "You have now been opted out of receiving VoiceFive studies from the Google Ad Network." To opt out of the VoiceFive survey: 1. Go to voicefive.com/Privacy.aspx. 2. Scroll down to the section: Are cookies used by your website or your application? 3. Find within and click the underlined link labelled: click here A cookie that will block pop-up surveys from VoiceFive will be placed on your computer.

I received an email from them inviting me to take a survey in exchange for an honorarium. I completed the entire survey and when I clicked "submit", it told me I was disqualified. Their customer service took 2 weeks to respond and said "if we have already filled the quota by the time you have submitted your survey, you will receive a message saying, 'you are not qualified to take this survey'". I doubt they honor any of their promises for compensation. Unless you like wasting your time, stay far, far away from this site.

Even though McAfee Site Adviser says it is a safe site; their user comments say excessive pop ups and spam. Based on other comments here it seems best to block voicefive.com. They are using us as unwitting Guinea pigs in their marketing experiments. Anybody here wanna help the corporate masters? They collect info about you via cookies according to many accounts.

This site keeps invades sites after I have blocked them with ghostery. Bugs originate while checking my mail! Scary site!

VoiceFive Networks routinely conducts online surveys on behalf of clients around the world. Potential participants are presented with an invitation to take a survey via email, through an ad on a participating website, or even on a coupon printed in a grocery store. Participation in any survey is completely voluntary. Survey takers have the opportunity to help companies in the financial services, consumer products, travel, health care, automotive, retail and other industries understand their likes and dislikes.