Remove Trunapol.xyz Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Trunapol.xyz pop-ups appear when you do not expect, bothering and irritating you. Nonetheless, they are much more than annoying pop-ups – their origins is clearly malignant, and they can introduce other malware to your device. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Trunapol.xyz pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Trunapol.xyz pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the web pages it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also promote fake online shopping sites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

What are Trunapol.xyz pop-ups?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular push notifications and Trunapol.xyz pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the new publications, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested ones to have the best deal.

Short summary of the Trunapol.xyz pop-ups:

Trunapol.xyz pop-up advertisements, in contrast, have a deal with untrustworthy websites. You will generally see the offer to enable them following the redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you into such a questionable place. At that point, enabling push notifications is served as the anti-DDoS check-up. In other cases, the websites may deny showing you the content unless you turn on these pop-up notifications. These demands should be the red flag, as websites usually feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this offer should be the reason to skip the website doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

How does this work?

Most of web browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they want. It may be an advertisement of the page listed on this website, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will throw you to site Y – because a link to that website was built in.

Scoundrels rely on this feature in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick users into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no legit companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Trunapol.xyz popups you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user can get into a trap of several pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable payment for one view, but when you have a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though most of such banners are ineffective, it may still give all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Trunapol.xyz pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you generally see in push notifications. Trunapol.xyz web page is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately show tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal ads, Trunapol.xyz pop-up notifications lack legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the website these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-up notifications promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Trunapol.xyz pop-up ads are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Trunapol.xyz pop-ups?

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and can be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers manually

To reset Edge, do the following steps:

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:

2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original:

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions:

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:

After choosing this option, you will see the next message:

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:

3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default:

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option:


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown:

When the browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines²:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Scan your system for possible viruses

Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).

1. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.