Pass and Play

Posted by Lisa Blanc on February 11, 2016

What is Pass and Play?

Pass and Play is a program whose files are signed by Fresh Sync and which is promoted on passandplaysoftware.com. Unfortunately, it is impossible to download it from this website; however, we are sure that this program is available for download on other pages. The majority of users decide to install this program on their systems because they think that Pass and Play will really provide them with great web deals. Unfortunately, it seems that this program will only show ads for users because its publisher gets money for that. Yes, Pass and Play is known to be an ad-supported (adware) program. Researchers at anti-spyware-101.com have managed to find out that this program is compatible with all the main browsers (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox), which means that users will see ads no matter which of these browsers they use. It is possible to prevent ads from appearing on the screen; however, it will not be very easy because you will have to remove Pass and Play fully yourself. test test test

What does Pass and Play do?

It is impossible not to notice that Pass and Play is installed even though it starts showing commercial ads after some time. First of all, it has been observed that it creates its main folder Pass and Play in %Program Files% (32-bit Windows) or %Program Files(x86)% (64-bit Windows). In addition, it will create three CLSID keys: {27ad2ddd-f568-4517-92ad-22f69316bc62}, {81C52541-0668-4A74-BC0A-0819643308FB}, and {A16372CF-B955-4A03-9711-56BA44DE5C66}. Finally, it will create several registry keys, for instance, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\PassandPlay and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PassandPlay. As you can see, this ad-supported program makes many modifications in order to be able to show ads and simply work properly.

As you already know, Pass and Play will not start showing commercial advertisements immediately; however, there is no doubt that you will start seeing them sooner or later. Specialists from anti-spyware-101.com have read the End User License Agreement (EULA) carefully and found that:

The Software is supported by several forms of advertising, which will be displayed as you use your browsers, including, without limitation, banner and video ads, in-text ads and links, web browsing-related ads, interstitial, transitional, search, and full page ads.

Ads will appear in a variety of forms, so there is no doubt that you will encounter them. Make sure that you do not click on any of those commercials even though they look quite decent because you might cause harm to your PC. Of course, not all the ads are bad and are going to put your system into danger; however, it is not so easy to say which of them are harmless. Therefore, it would be best that you do not click on any of them. Of course, you should still not keep this adware installed because there is always a possibility that you will click on one of those ads incidentally.

Actually, we suggest that you remove Pass and Play from your system if you want to protect your privacy too. It has been found that this ad-supported program is going to record personally and non-personally identifiable information. For example, IP address. Information about your computer system, Internet use, browsing activity, demographics, websites visited, pages viewed, search queries entered, and the specific content accessed. It might sell this data to other companies, which means that your privacy might be violated. If you wish to keep things to yourself, you have to eliminate adware from the system.

Where does Pass and Play come from?

If you enter its official website passandplaysoftware.com, you will notice that it is impossible to download this program from there. This suggests that it is distributed somehow differently. As research carried out by our specialists has shown, this ad-supported program is spread together with other programs in software bundles mainly, which is why the majority of users do not know when and how Pass and Play has entered. Other Injekt-based adware programs also exist and might enter your system, e.g. Dragon Branch, Record Page, and On Stage. Install a security tool if you want to protect your system from them.

How do I delete Pass and Play from my PC?

We hope that you have understood why it is so important to get rid of this adware after reading through this article. There are two ways to do that: manually or automatically. If you are going to get rid of this program yourself, you should, at least, use our manual removal instructions. Less experienced users might find the manual method difficult, so we suggest implementing the automatic Pass and Play removal for them. All they need to do is to download and install SpyHunter. Then, scan the system with it.