If while browsing you are suddenly surprised by ads identified with one of the following tags: Ad by Follow Rules, Follow Rules ads or powered by Follow Rules you may be sure that a potentially unwanted software responding to the same name has installed itself into your computer.
What is Follow Rules?
Follow Rules is presented in its own website as a software that allows users to have better results… without any further explanation. A more accurate description of what the software actually does can be found in the terms of use: it shows publicity, tracks your data, modifies your PC configuration, etc…
Follow Rules is a potentially unwanted program (PUP), we say potentially because there is a tiny possibility that you actually wanted to install it, although that is not the case in 99,9% of the times.
The fight against this kind of software never ends because the authors keep changing the names of their programs to avoid detection. Sadly, form a legal point of view it’s difficult to stop these activities, the authors are based mostly in countries where the legislation is too soft on them and where the installation can be considered as “voluntary” by the user.
Is Follow Rules dangerous?
Follow Rules has only 2 goals: to show ads while you browse the internet and to save everything you do on the net. This unwanted program can disturb the user, secretly modify the computer’s security level and put in danger the privacy of the user’s activities and data. There is not one good reason for you to keep this program in your PC, unless of course you love to be tracked and you enjoy online ads…Follow Rules
How did Follow Rules ended up in my PC?
Follow Rules is usually installed in a legit way because it’s included in some other setup program (Follow Rules is usually mentioned in a license contract where you need to accept its installation along with the install of the software you actually wanted in the first place). Free and demo software are the biggest sources of infection.
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