‘Recommended for You’ Pop-Ups

'Recommended for You' Pop-ups are a symptom of infection by the Trojan Troj/RuinDl-Gen. By default, Troj/RuinDl-Gen displays two separate types of advertisement-based pop-ups automatically. Any attempt to close these pop-ups will result in their being minimized instead of closed, with the tag line 'Recommended for You' appearing as a placeholder. These pop-ups can occur in all types of web browsers and will continue to display until the guilty Trojan, Troj/RuinDl-Gen, is removed from your PC. To this end, SpywareRemove.com malware analysts encourage you to use good anti-malware products to scan your PC for all components of a Troj/RuinDl-Gen infection and remove them with a minimum of harm to your OS. Since you may also experience other attacks, particularly browser redirects to potentially dangerous sites or (in the case of some variants) even theft of personal information while Troj/RuinDl-Gen is on your computer, delaying any action against Troj/RuinDl-Gen is highly inadvisable.

Why You Needn't Take the Recommendations from 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups Very Seriously

'Recommended for You' Pop-ups are, without a doubt, the most visible symptom of infection by Troj/RuinDl-Gen, which, in some cases, is identified as a variant of Trojan from the Alueron family. Such 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups pop-ups are displayed consistently in all types of major browsers, including Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. While their contents will rotate through various advertisements, 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups can be identified by their usage of a copycat iPhone template in the case of one pop-up, and a simpler text book and accompanying portrait image for the second pop-up. While these advertisements may or may not be a danger to your computer, SpywareRemove.com malware analysts generally recommend against trusting links that are sponsored by malicious software like the 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups's own Troj/RuinDl-Gen.

Even though you can force 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups to minimize, they'll refuse to be closed and will reappear in all their questionable glory once you reboot your computer. 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups are also very likely to be used alongside browser redirect attacks that force your browser to load unusual websites at random intervals. Minor variants of the Troj/RuinDl-Gen PC threat that's responsible for 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups may also include spyware functions that allow them to steal browser-transmitted information (such as passwords or credit card data). Fortunately, SpywareRemove.com malware experts have found that these variants of Trojans causing 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups to appear are a minority at the time of this writing.

Cramming 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups Out of Your Browser at Last

While 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups are fully-functional in all major brands of web browsers, the Trojan that's responsible for them can only attack Windows computers. Since Trojans that create 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups have also been observed to download and launch additional code, you should be aware of the potential for other attacks that are caused by configuration differences or the installation of additional PC threats. Thankfully, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers consider protecting your PC from 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups and their associated Trojans to be relatively simple, since Troj/RuinDl-Gen was identified in 2006 and has long since had anti-malware protection developed to counteract it.

Any reasonably competent anti-malware scanner should be able to remove Troj/RuinDl-Gen and the 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups that come with it, and SpywareRemove.com malware analysts recommend scanning your computer as soon as you first see any 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups. Ideally, this should be done with a minimum of interaction with your web browser, since 'Recommended for You' Pop-ups often come in the company of browser hijacks that could force your browser to load sites with hostile content (such as drive-by-download scripts or phishing sites).