Quote Originally Posted by Confuzzled View Post
Indeed, there are risks, but I've never downloaded or seen any malicious software from or on surveys after years of using that service. The survey-offering companys have strict guidelines, atleast SupersonicAds and SponsorPay. I don't think they would allow such programs.

You must differentiate the surveys and the advertisements. Some advertisements could lead to a website which contains malware, as example clicking on "You're the 999.999 User on this website, you just won $123456789". Those websites often host malware.

Sometimes toolbars are included, that's right, but usually they don't do anything bad and you always have the option to check a box that you don't want to download a toolbar.

Atleast they have removed the "malicious" offer, I wonder if there was proof that these registry changes were caused by a download from a survey. I may also suggest the use of a virtual computer or Sandboxie, if you run programs through a virtual computer or Sandboxie, nothing will be changed on your computer.
If you actually google most of these downloads, you'll find that 90% of them are malware or viruses.

Is it really worth the hassle of trying to remove these over a few miserable tokens?

Downloads are a waste of time.