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How to Detect and Remove PrizeSurfer?
PrizeSurfer Description:
From the doc: 'We work with top online merchants to promote the safety and quality of shopping on the Internet. Participating merchants are screened for quality across a variety of criteria - product quality and customer service among them. These merchants are safe, secure and represent what the online shopping experience should be.

Like a shopping or buying club, we offer benefits to our members. Just for being an active PrizeSurfer, our users are eligible for fantastic prizes. Unlike a shopping club, we don't require members to shop to reap the benefits.'

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PrizeSurfer Manual Removal:

Follow these steps to remove PrizeSurfer from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.

  1. Kill these running processes with Task Manager:
    programfilesdir+\rcprograms\rcsync.exe
    programfilesdir+\rcprograms\v2\prizesurfer.exe
  2. Remove AutoRun Reference: Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. If you find the value rcsync, delete it and reboot the machine immediately.
  3. Unregister these DLLs with Regsvr32, then reboot:
    systemroot+\downloaded program files\passkey.dll
  4. Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{7b91df1f-96e8-42ba-ab39-e1db9ce9f371}
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{6d846abd-9ece-44ad-bb1b-e1b0b20e352f}
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\passkey.validate
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\passkey.validate.1
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\typelib\{be055af3-6567-4678-a901-d4b7d92e55fe}
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\code store database\distribution units\{7b91df1f-96e8-42ba-ab39-e1db9ce9f371}
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\moduleusage
    \c:/windows/downloaded program files/passkey.dll
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\prizesurfer
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\rcsync
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\shareddlls
    \c:\windows\downloaded program files\passkey.dll
  5. Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:  
    programfilesdir+\rcprograms\rcsync.exe
    programfilesdir+\rcprograms\v2\prizesurfer.exe
    systemroot+\downloaded program files\passkey.dll
    ea.bin
  6. Remove these directories (if present) with Windows Explorer:
    programfilesdir+\rcprograms
    programfilesdir+\rcprograms1
    programfilesdir+\rcprograms2
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